On 27 Jan 2003, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 12:56, Ed wrote: > > Did I just read that Red Hat is dropping it's support down to one year > > for it's non-Advanced Server products? > > It's not a drop. They've always advertised support as "at least one > year". > It would probably be extremely wise of Red Hat to assure people that some patches _will_ be made available for a longer period of time, say two years. I'm thinking of apache, php, openssh, etc. -- server daemons or subsystems that more often result in a high level security alert. Imagine a nasty apache exploit like we have seen in the past that compromises a lot of servers. All the other linux vendors supply patches immediately. Is Red Hat going to say "Sorry, Red Hat 7.2 -- its product support date has ended." No they probably aren't. So why not publish a more reasonable support policy? By these measures the support for 7.3 might end in a few months. Okay, probably longer if you argue what this phrase means: "Beginning with the 8.0 release, Red Hat will provide errata maintenance for at least 12 months from the date of initial release." But one year is just too short when I think of the differences between 7.3 and 8.0.. Red Hat _still_ hasn't produced a patch for PHP that would make the combination of apache2 and php a stable combination on 8.0. This makes 8.0 in MY books unsuitable for a heavy duty apache-php web server -- and as we all know there are a _lot_ of small red hat web servers out there... One year is just too short. So why make official statements that imply that it could happen? Red Hat will-be-flamed/is-being flamed for this -- and deservedly so. cheers, denice -- denice.deatrich @ epfl.ch, DSC / LTHC-LTHI, E.P.F.L. PH: +41 (21) 693 76 67 <*> This moment's fortune cookie: The years of peak mental activity are undoubtedly between the ages of four and eighteen. At four we know all the questions, at eighteen all the answers. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
