On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:33:09 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Jeff Lasman wrote: >> They announced the phase out at least a year ago; perhaps longer. > >I just spoke to Red Hat, and none of their front line people could name a >date, though they 'guessed' that it must have been later than July/03 when >the Red Hat 10 Beta was released.... > >> > Just dropping all support at the end of April, which I have not seen a >> > notice on, is not a good decision. > >Well, it's good for *them*. But I think it shows miserable attention to >the worth of their brand name in terms of reliability and longevity. I >mean, I bought a product labelled 'professional' (which they now refer to >as 'community' products - nice change, RH!), knowing that it only had >limited customer support, but expecting it to have ongoing updates/fixes >for at least several years, either for the product itself or its >successors. Only now we hear there won't be 'successors', except in a >roundabout fashion on the 'Fedora Project'......
[That should be enough for context - snipped the rest for bandwidth] I came from OS/2 to Redhat linux... Who can say "Deja Vu" ??? <sigh> Another company with a decent product and a completely incompetent marketing department. Luckily, Linux is open source, and there's lots of ways to skin a cat. I discovered apt-get dist-upgrade some time ago. The only thing that hasn't come thru there (BEFORE it came thru up2date) was the kernal. Guess I'll spend some time at kernal.org. Problem solved. I purchased 6 subscriptions to Redhat network, mainly because I wanted to support Redhat. Well, I can save that money and put it toward Suse... Adios Redhat, don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. I predict they'll be in chapter 11 before the end of 2004... and linux will be pretty much right where it is now, or maybe a little more prevalent. And, to bring this post back toward the stated subject, I was never able to successfully install SA from the RPMs - Redhat messed up the dependencies when they built the RPM, and when I reported the problem to RH tech support, I got the equivilant of "Huh?" (They used about 100 words, same end result). I installed from CPAN - worked fine. Mike- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. ----------------------------------------------------- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
