> -----Original Message----- > From: Theo Van Dinter > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 7:06 PM
> Well, it depends what you mean by "paying customer" ... Meaning someone who purchases Enterprise products. There are a lot of RH installations in the world. I can certainly understand that development and updates for the non-RHEL products are a sieve financially. I just think it is irresponsible to just drop security and product updates without a planned phase-out. Just dropping all support at the end of April, which I have not seen a notice on, is not a good decision. They started the game of free distros. If they can not politely bow out with such a huge install base, I would seriously consider ever purchasing RHEL. > They're still going to do (only going to do actually) > Enterprise RedHat Linux. Support, updates, etc. So if > you're paying for RHEL, no problem there. If you've > purchased a box RH9 or something, or an entitlement for RHN > for non-EL, that's another issue. Well then, they are not really ending support. They are ending *free* support. This at least makes more sense. However, I still think a better and published phase-out is appropriate. > At work I have 9 AS, 2 ES, and 5 non-EL boxes. I've been > told in no uncertain terms by the regional sales rep that > updates, at least, for non-EL versions will stop around April > of next year. I would imagine that means that support for > those versions will stop too. With the exception you mentioned above, I assume. > I'm not sure what we're going to do with the non-EL boxes. I > think we'll probably end up switching the non-essential boxes > to Fedora, and the rest to ES or WS, depending on how > "server" class they are. <sigh> I, as well as others here too, have the same dilema. To the point of the original post though, the non-RHN/EL RPM update cessation will not eliminate RPMs or the independent releases of RPMs. I find more pertinent RPMs via rpmseek.com than at RH. And even though I am a bit negative about RH's decision-making concerning product discontinuation, I am not too concerned about the product discontinuation itself. It will just be a bit harder to maintain. The life of the installed OS can continue until Fedora is at a stable point. I would think that if RH engineers continue to work Fedora, it will at least have the flavor of the current non-EL distros and maybe gradually drift in a different direction. > It does make sense I guess though, the non-EL side of things > is very likely not making RH much (if any) money. So they > can offload that to "the community", and focus on the EL side > of things. Agreed. This is one point that I think will be benificial. I was considering Gentoo but I think they are a bit bleeding-edge sometimes and are not quite ready for servers. --Larry ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
