Re: servers running the free version of redhat

[Shachar Shemesh]

Karasik, Vitaly wrote:

Sagi,

Yes, RH 6.2 is unsupported for about 4 months.

I see few ways for upgrading /replacing  RH6.2 servers :

1) use RHEL 2.1; you can buy RHEL WS (with sendmail/apache) for just
179$ ; you will pay ~$80 per year/per machine for updates [I suggest
this way]
2) use Debian 

3) dw kernel/apache/sendmail/.... patches from according sites, compile
and install them


Regards,
Vitaly Karasik
PS: well, many people believe they may use RHEL (and RHEL updates) for
free.
 

Hi,
   

 

RedHat recently issued a new policy regarding their free (or now
   

community) versions of Red Hat.

 

One of the main changes is that the lifetime of the free versions is
   

now only 1 year - they say they will not release any >>errata for those
versions, even not if you subscribe to RHN.
 

You can get more information about this here:
   

http://www.redhat.com/software/whichlinux.html

 

I'm in charge of many servers running free redhat, some of them are
   

still running RedHat 6.x.

 

It's understandable that 6.x now becomes supported, but this policy
   

means that even the 7.3 version (which many of us still >install on new
servers) will not be supported in few months!
 

I decided to install debian on new servers, but the question is - what
   

should I (and the rest of the users running those >versions of redhat -
and there are many, many of them) do?
 

I also wonder if redhat really won't release security updates for those
   

machines - it means that if a new hole is found it >can leave hundreds
of thousands of machines without an official software update.
 

So, what the rest of you are doing?
   

 

Sagi
   

We can start a free software project of providing erratas and updates 
for RedHat 6.2 and 7.3. I actually think that would be a good idea. 
Provide an up2date server and all.

         Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Open Source integration consultant
Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/


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