Re: redhat 8.0 support

[marius popa <mapopa reea net>]

Raphael Clifford wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would be very sad to see Redhat 8.0 support go. I am not sure my vote 
> counts for much but I am responsible for a few redhat 8.0 sytems that 
> are not in the same town as me so it would be tricky/dangerous for me to 
> upgrade the whole distribution currently I feel. If Legacy suport went I 
> would be almost entirely relying on whatever dag produces and he does 
> not officially do security updates as far as I can tell... although that 
> is often the effect of his upgraded packages.
>
> As I can only dedicate about an hour a week to looking after these 
> machines your work is invaluable to me.

Maybe for RedHat 8.0 should be left to volunteers (call it 8.0 Legancy 2)
I use *old* versions 9 and 7.3 for servers
Upgrade from 8.0 -> 9.0 is painless and you could choose what packages 
need to be left untouched (mysql,apache...)