Hello, thats interesting you say that. Just a few questions about this. So if they are going to do this. why have they got that up2date system in the installation ? I cant remember it being in 7.3, I am guess it was new to 8.0. I also think a lot of people will start looking to some other distro. I know i cant do with waiting 9 months for security updates, thats worst than Microsoft. I think in today's world, security is becoming very important!
Is there an announcement mailing list any where. Just looking for other peoples view here on this. but I am running 8.0. when 8.1 comes out, is it a good idea to install 8.1 or keep 8.0 and just update the packages up2date says are out of date ? David On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 06:57, Ed Wilts wrote: > 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
