On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:13:20PM -0800, Jack Bowling wrote: > General RH releases are on about a 6 month cycle. Since Psyche was out > in October, I expect the next one to be out in early spring 2003. > However, market pressures are what drives the release cycle (although RH > will deny that, I'm sure). So if you see the rest of the distros ramping > up, RH will have to follow. The exception to this is RHAS which is on a > separate release schedule.
Since Red Hat has announced an effective end-of-life of Dec 31, 2003 for 8.0, they have forced themselves to release early. If they wait until 6 months after October - which would be March - they've forced all the customers into a corner. An OS install of the latest version (8.0 in March) would only be supported for 9 months. I realize they want to sell Advanced Server, but this is IMHO blackmail. As a business user of Red Hat Linux, I'm going to have to seriously consider retiring Red Hat Linux since I can't go without security updates 9 months after an install. I've still got mostly 6.2 systems in production and I can't upgrade all my systems every 6-9 months. It just is not going to happen - the manpower simply isn't there. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
