Re: Friday Flames - What to do with RHL7.3/9 and FC1/2

[seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu>]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 10:08 -0700, Tim Thome wrote:
> My last words on the subject...
> 
> The RH9 GA Release, as far as I can tell, was 03/31/03. Putting RH's  
> timeline for life-cycle, maintenance should be carried on for a  
> minimum of 5 years.
> 
> I think this is probably unreasonable, as the team's resources are  
> limited, which is why we're having this discussion.
> 
> However, as Eric wrote, there are complex production systems that are  
> running RH9, and the pain of upgrading these to the 2.6 kernel, these  
> systems may not be able to make that leap. This bar is going to be  
> hit with other distro's as well, including the RHEL clones.
> 
> The only alternative for RH9 users is to migrate outside of the  
> direct RH family, and this is bad karma for us...

No it's not.
migrate to centos 3.

it's a 2.4 kernel, it's a rebuild project, it follows rhel3 completely
and is damned-near perfect for leaving rhl9 AND it is free.

-sv