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slave:
What I really mean to say is that forced upgrades aren't *that* bad if the software is free, but you're right, I could be running red hat linux 6.2 and, it being open source software, I could maintain it myself without the red hat network for as long as I want.  People just need to see that Red Hat isn't obliged to freely update their old systems forever.

Calum:

quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:
First of all you are suggesting that red hat is forcing an upgrade.
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i am not. churchey suggested that. i did not in any way suggest that.
quote:This just isnt possible with free open source software. Simply put users can continue to use old versions for an extremely long time as long as they update their kernel and glibc and et cetera. Now this is in no way like the microsoft tactic of writing programs that can not be used on Windows 95, not because it cant run them, but because they want you to upgrade to XP. Give Red Hat a break.
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arm or a leg? i didn't say ANYTHING about red hat. i am suspicious of them because they have interests at heart that are not the same as mine, that's only sensible. anything else would be stupid of me.

Master of Reality:
well. red hat did get rid of MP3 format support because it was proprietary, so maybe they are just a bit confused right now?

dishawjp:
Hi All,

I like Red Hat and am still running RH 6.1 on one machine, 6.2 on another and 8.0 on another, but I'm not too thrilled at the idea RH will not be supporting their older versions for more than a year or so.  Manually keeping up with security updates will be difficult, and if RH ever wants to break into the business desktop environment they won't want to try and force IT departments to be upgrading their OS every year or so.  It may even adversely impact general user adoption.  I will be upgrading to RH 8.1 when it somes out in a few months, but it will be a bit of a hassle.  Reinstalling Nvidia drivers for the video card and etc.  The general public doesn't like doing that sort of stuff.  It could turn people off, especially if they don't update and their systems become insecure and they get rooted.

It jsut seems lke a bad idea to me.  I switched to Linux because I was pissed at M$ trying to force me to upgrade every few years among other reasons.  I hate to see Red Hat heading down that road.

Jim

Calum:
i like red hat and i have red hat 8.0 installed right now among others (mandrake still my workhorse OS though) and i also think it's a bad idea. they're cutting costs by saving a few pennies but the large amount of people they will alienate will hopefully knock them from the top spot and give somebody a chance who brings out a more versatile version of linux.

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