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

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 6/9/06, Tim Thome <tthome at cox.net> wrote:
> On Jun 9, 2006, at 9:11 PM, seth vidal wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 23:53 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >> As we approach FC6 Test2, we should make a decision wrt RHL7.3/9 and
> >> FC1/2.  We've been supporting these releases for a while now, and
> >> they've grown pretty long in the tooth, even by Legacy standards.
> >> Our
> >> lifetime policy would dictate that FC1 should be gone already, and
> >> FC2
> >> would go when we pick up FC4, so that we're only supporting FC3
> >> and FC4.
> >> The RHL releases are a different matter.
> >>
> >
> > +1 for killing rhl 7.3, 9, fc1 and fc2 when fc4 comes in.
> >
> > -sv
>
> There needs to be an end for 7.3, along with Fedora Core Releases 1
> and 2, but there are non-hobby people and organizations that need
> extended legacy support for RH9.
>

To be honest.. we have had 0 problems converting servers and desktops
from RHL-9 to RHEL-3. I would say that any site needing RH9 should
look at RHEL-3 {CENTOS/TAO/WHITEBOX/etc} versus legacy.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator