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sime:
Bloody well is is you have 6 RH boxes and just built half a new Live Web server. Oh well, guess RH want to be the MS of Linux, I hould have seen that coming!

http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/11/03/1657205.shtml

Well shove it RH. Any suggestions as to a replacement. Needs to be rock steady, easily and reliably updatable, and be good enough to run live BIND, HTTP, SENDMAIL, MailScanner, Avirt, PHP, Perl, SSH blah, blah.

Just want some other opinions to chew on.

Currently thinking Slack, Deb, SuSE or a flavour of BSD

Later

Sime

Master of Reality:
I would suggest slackware or Debian. I use Slackware 9.1  :D

mobrien_12:
I just got this email.  They announced last year that they would discontinue support for everything before 8 around December.  However, the decision to scrap updates for RH9 at April of next year really makes me angry!  I paid for the official professional version of RH 9 a couple of months ago and now I won't be able to have patches in RPM or SRPM form for it after April??  

Yeah I can manually patch it, but the RPM security updates were one of the primary reasons I chose RH for my desktop OS.

And there will be no new version of RHL so I will have to do a full reinstall.  Nor do I need/want Enterprise Linux.

Fine, RH doesn't want me as a customer. Goodbye RH.

[ November 03, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

shuiend:
Will apt-get still work? If it does then you really wont have a problem with using an older version. Just upgrade to 9 by then and you will be fine. I also see though the point in discontinuing support for older os's. That cost lots of money and money is definetly not something any linux company has a lot of. They are moving more into server based and such or maybe more 1 solution. This really makes it easyer to be a user b/c it should ge rid of alot of issues like with diffrent kernels and such. Also if u still want to switch slackware is great.
Thats just my .02 cents

flap:
No, they're discontinuing support for all versions of Red Hat, with the exception of the enterprise version. RH 9 won't be supported after April.

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