On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Martin Stricker wrote: > "M. Yu" wrote: > > > Just went to www.redhat.com/errata/ to check for updates for my RH8 > > box and saw this announcement that RH would be providing "errata > > maintenance for at least 12 months from the date of initial release". > > It also puts up the End of Life dates for errata maintenance for > > several products. What exactly does this mean? > > It means that after that date no more security fixes will be publishes > by Red Hat - it literally is unsupported. I don't think you can buy > support for these versions. > > > Believe it or not I still run RH6.2 in some of our production boxes > > and will probably continue to do so after the March 31, 2003 EoL > > date. What can I look forward to beyond 03/31/03? > > Upgrade to 7.3. Or be very careful and compile from source. But that > will eventually become more and more complicated, because your system > has too much old stuff and thus doesn't meet requirements of the new > versions. Speaking from personal experience I have found it is much easier to upgrade to something more recent (in this case I would suggest 7.3) than it is to keep up a system that Red Hat has declared EOL. I tried this once and it was only 1 system and it was a major PITA to keep just the security updates current. The only reason it hung around so long was it needed a hdwe upgrade also and the customer didn't want to spend money on it. I was finally glad to see it go. HTH, -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@rogueind.com hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting .... -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
