On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 11:42, Ed Wilts wrote: > > Red Hat must (IMHO) offer a "prior-release" service that we can > purchase. We simply will not be updating 10+ servers annually - we > don't have the manpower to do that and Linux won't survive here if > they're penetrated or become too labor-intensive to manage.
I think what you're looking for is Red Hat Advanced Server. I figure the 12 month lifetime, while disappointing, is intended to promote sales of the AS product. I suspect that it will work among big shops. The application developers where I work have been asking a lot of questions about AS, and I suspect they'll buy it, even before the announcement of the product lifetimes. > I support Red Hat in eliminating 6.2 through 7.2. Eliminating support > for 7.3 is *way* too premature. I basically agree. Support for all but the last of a series for 12 months is fine by me. I'd like to see longer support for the final releases in a series. However, if Red Hat follows their announced plan, I forsee the community producing their own updates. It would be, in most cases, no more difficult that recompiling and testing the errata releases for the supported platforms. This will very likely accompany a push toward the use of apt for update/installation maintenance among the RH community. Both of these have served Debian well; they can work for us, too. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
