> It just means admins will have to do some > sanity checks - as one of the posters said, > it's a good idea to try out the updates on > non mission-critical boxes first - > > We don't have any issues with RH 9 in a > production setting, we just have to follow > general common-sense guidelines - but all > things considered we're happy with the > RH 9 production servers we've deployed. If you are running Red Hat 9 on a production server, I imagine you would upgrade to RH 10/11... when support/errata for RH 9 ends in 11 months. If so, you effectively become a test site for bleeding edge features that Red Hat will introduce into new releases. This would most likely have a negative impact on reliability and stability of your servers.