This has been my experience as well. We use the Linux distro which supports the 'stuff' we have to use for business. Many things you run in Linux which you have to pay for (like JRun, ClearCase, backup software, network tools) and ONLY supported on the linux versions tested. This has been the biggest hurdle to Linux adoption in my mind. How many people do you think are using RH Linux because the software they need was tested/supported on it? I bet it is a great percentage of people who could otherwise use Windows or another Linux distro. I would love to try SuSe and others, but there are things I must use which are not supported. I used to use Slackware a lot until we started to get into the enterprise apps and backup tools. At that point, RH was the only 'certified' game in town which would do all. Al -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Galecki, Jason Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:46 PM To: 'redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: patches The reason not everyone can look at the latest and greatest is because products like Veritas, CA Unicenter, Best1, which are used in our enterprise network as "standards". Hence, I'm stuck using Redhat 8, which is the only thing supported by all 3. We may have to move to ???, when Redhat 8 is no longer updated. Jason Galecki The Red Hat end-of-lifecycle for those products are nearing. They will not be actively supported (i.e. patched for problems, enhancements, etc.) Through up2date, however, you can migrate your system to Fedora Core (or pretty much to any still-active release). Unless you were a server admin (in which case you would be looking at AS or ES), I don't see a point why you wouldn't want the latest and greatest. -- Michael Lee Yohe <michael.yohe@xxxxxxxxxxx> U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command Software Engineering Directorate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
