Kernel (security updates)

[William Burns]

Mark + Dan:

I'm glad to hear that fedoralegacy is doing such a good job w/ RedHat
support.
But... My company has execs that loose their warm-and-fuzzy feeling when
they hear that it's not a RedHat supported project. (I.E. no "actual"
commercial backing for the security updates)

As for my own personal situation, April 31st wasn't enough of a time
extension for my RedHat7.2 machines. Also, unfortunately, my hardware
was ON the RedHat HCL, but after I bought it, I found out that it only
worked w/ closed-source drivers. SuSE workstation 9 (but not server 8)
solved my driver issues.
I might have gotten better opensourced hardware support w/ a newer
RedHat, but I doubt that even RedHat9's community-provided security
updates would have lasted 3 years.

Actually, switching to SuSE turned out to be a major pain in the butt.
It seems that I've been benefiting from being w/ the market leader all
these years.
The few 3-rd party packages that I  use at work have provided RedHat
RPMs. Finding SuSE RPMS and/or Getting RedHat packages to work w/ SuSE
was problematic. (dependency hell)

If I could have gotten the answer that I was looking for on RHPW updates
("please be free for the whole 5-yrs via ftp") I would have gone w/ that.
I still might for other servers if I can get a clarification. Or I might
use whitebox...

Once I've got the dollar-scalability issue nailed down, I might buy
one-seat of those hideously expensive top-end RedHat server support
contracts that I'll never use, so that I can avoid feeling like a
freeloader. (You can pay a lot for some versions of those)

-Bill

Mark Nienberg wrote:

>On 19 Apr 2004 at 20:51, William Burns wrote:
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>>Is there a stated policy on what fedora components RedHat will
>>maintain, and for how long? AFAIK, there are now no updates to
>>RedHat8, or 9. Any idea what happens to fedora core-1 support when
>>fedora core-2 comes out?
>>
>>
>
>The fedora legacy project is providing security updates for the 3 versions previous to
>the current version.  That means they are currently supporting RedHat 7.2, 7.3,and
>8.  On April 31 I think they switch to 7.3, 8, and 9.  When Fedora Core 2 comes out,
>they will provide security updates for RedHat 8, 9, and Fedora Core 1. etc.
>
>http://www.fedoralegacy.org
>
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Dan Hollis wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, William Burns wrote:
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>>I just switched 3 mail servers over to SuSE from RedHat 7.2
>>We're hoping that SuSE9 will be supported for the next 3 years.
>>
>>
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>fedora legacy project does a pretty good job of supporting older redhats:
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>http://www.fedoralegacy.org/
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