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

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 6/12/06, kles koe <kleskoe at hotmail.com> wrote:
> if i'm correct, the fedora project philosophy is to bring out 'experimental'
> releases with very short release cycles where as the old RHL releases were
> official and stable releases.
> both got picked up by the legacy group for legacy support, which is great
> ofcourse.
>
> so dropping older fedora releases shouldn't be a problem, i mean, nobody
> would actually run an experimental release as a stable server would they?
> (i know people are actually doing this but that's the risk they took.)
>
> with RHL 7.3/9 it's a different story, lot's of companies installed them on
> their servers still expecting a certain period of support (what is it
> currently for RHEL? 7 years?) but then redhat changed course and decided to
> drop support all together.
>

It is 7 years for support for RHEL, but it was only 18-24 months for
the older RHL releases. Both have passed for RHL-7.3 and RHL-9.
RHEL-2.1 which is equivalent to RHL-7.3 is now in maintenance support.
Come Nov 1st, RHEL-3 will be in maintenance support {e.g. RHEL3U8 will
be the last release with hardware updates}.

http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

Looking at the fact that RHEL-3 will go into 'deep-freeze' on Nov 1st,
I would consider that the drop dead date for Legacy to drop support
for RHL-9.




-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator