Re: Red Hat Linux 9 - the end is very near - 6 months

[Al Gelders <agelders lightspeed net>]

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 10:52, Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> Hello fellow Red Hatters,
> 
> On this sad day Red has finally announced by email -
> About the upcoming discontinuation of Red Hat Linux.
> Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support 
> for Red Hat Linux as of April 30, 2004 and 
> does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line.
> 
> This is truly a very sad day.
> Whoever has paid for their service recently will not get their money
> back, only an incentive to upgrade to their Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
> so there goes your money and that faithful support to Red Hat goes for
> ... (and not for Linux).
> You cannot buy Red Hat Linux 9 from redhat.com yet you can buy from
> retailers so they will bear the brunt of possible unsatisfied customers,
> with no warning that the product will not be supported.
> 

I did pay for support and it expires way past April. There is no way I
would give RH hundreds of dollars for more support that could end at any
time.

Does anyone know if the Red Carpet channel will keep RH 9 going for a
while longer?
-- 
al gelders
agelders lightspeed net