On 6/12/06, kles koe <kleskoe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
if i'm correct, the fedora project philosophy is to bring out 'experimental'
releases with very short release cycles where as the old RHL releases were
official and stable releases.
both got picked up by the legacy group for legacy support, which is great
ofcourse.
so dropping older fedora releases shouldn't be a problem, i mean, nobody
would actually run an experimental release as a stable server would they?
(i know people are actually doing this but that's the risk they took.)
with RHL 7.3/9 it's a different story, lot's of companies installed them on
their servers still expecting a certain period of support (what is it
currently for RHEL? 7 years?) but then redhat changed course and decided to
drop support all together.
It is 7 years for support for RHEL, but it was only 18-24 months for
the older RHL releases. Both have passed for RHL-7.3 and RHL-9.
RHEL-2.1 which is equivalent to RHL-7.3 is now in maintenance support.
Come Nov 1st, RHEL-3 will be in maintenance support {e.g. RHEL3U8 will
be the last release with hardware updates}.
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
Looking at the fact that RHEL-3 will go into 'deep-freeze' on Nov 1st,
I would consider that the drop dead date for Legacy to drop support
for RHL-9.
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Stephen J Smoogen.
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