On Thursday 06 November 2003 14:10, Miskell, Craig wrote: > First up - thanks for this project. It's a potential > lifeline in the midst of an otherwise quite disruptive period. I'm > not sure how much I'll be able to help, but if there's ever an > opportunity, I'll definitely try. > > Down to business - there's been mention on this list and in the draft > press release about support for RH8.0. Sometimes it seems definite, > sometimes not. Does anyone have any strong word on that? We're kind > of stuck on 8.0 for a lot of our servers, based on it being > "officially supported" by our hardware vendor (HP), and to get the > right version of glibc etc to support certain software we're running > ;-). But if I can't find updates for it somewhere, then I'm going to > have to either look at RHEL (not likely as it would be expensive - > we've got, or will have shortly, ~50 boxes running linux) or else go > the whole hog, ignore support issues, and use debian. Unfortunately, > I've only got 2 months to decide and not much longer to implement, if > I'm going to keep my boxes reasonably secure. > > Any indicators of the likelihood of support for 8.0 would be great, Initial thoughts were to _not_ support 8.0. There was very little interest in the community to continue using it, and to continue supporting it. That said, I suppose we can re-open discussions on the merits of continued support of 8.0. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy) Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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