Re: The end of RHL for private use? [was: Fedora vs. RHL]

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Quoting John Haxby <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Martin Stricker wrote:
> 
> >Both at work and at home I want a stable and reliable system with a long
> >lifespan. Fast changes are dangerous! If I wanted that, I'd go for
> >Mandrake or S.u.S.E... Currently I run RHL 7.3 in both places, which now
> >need to be replaced because errata support ends. Fedora isn't an option.
> >Red hat Enterprise might be an option at work, but with the bad economy
> >the budget is very tight. I'm not saying Red Hat is too expensive, but
> >there is Debian...
> >  
> >
> I may be wrong, but didn't I read somewhere that RHEL *sources* would be 
> freely available for download (by which I understood src rpms) which 

Yes, check ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/enterprise/

> means that it wouldn't be beyond someone, a lot of people in fact, to 
> maintain a binary version of RHEL built from source.
> 
> jch
> 
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