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

[Nico De Ranter <nico sonycom com>]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:19:37AM +0000, andré julien wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The situation  confronting Red Hat lovers  is less painful than the loss of  
> OS2 which was final as Linux will live on.  The rage of  OS2 lovers was  
> terrible but did not change anything.  By the way,  why changing and 
> updating every three or six months  if a system runs smoothly ? Red Hat 7 

Security patches!  No need to continuously upgrade indeed, but you should at least
make sure your system is safe.  No more Red Hat updates probably also means no more 
security patches for those versions.

> and 8 work fine, Mandrake 9.1  is wonderful to work with.  So smile,  unless 
> you want to join the mourners of my beloved OS2,  and those  of MS-DOS 6.22, 
>   and MS-DOS 5 and MS-DOS 3.1  and every previous Windows.  Linux remains 
> the best because it is a world wide  collective effort to establish an 
> affordable system.
> andre
> 
> >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.
> >
> >Not true.  The name changes, true, but the Red Hat Linux we know and
> >love will become "Fedora".
> >
> >
> >The purchased, box-set Red Hat Linux becomes "Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
> >in three flavors:  "WS" (workstation, what we now use mostly), "ES" (the
> >stuff we use now on steroids), and "AS" (advanced server).
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