> -----Original Message----- > From: shrike-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:shrike-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ajai Khattri > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Norman Nunn wrote: > > > This is an interesting question for me. > > > > In a few months RH support for RH 9 ends. What happens > when we may need > > to install RH 9 again but the up2date connection is no longer > > available. > > Exactly the conundrum that many RedHat devotees are in. > > > (I decided to switch to Gentoo...) Frankly.. That's what a lot of users are left with. Projects like Fedora-legacy is good mind you, it solves the purpose at least for ppl who uses RH9 & Below as servers and is security concious and has no need for new features. I have a RH8 Server and I'm fine(read as Thankful) with all the updates from fedora-legacy. The thing that irks me is for the Home User. (eg: I'm on RH9. which will EOL in a week/2) We're not left with much choices. eg: Where am I gonna turn to when I want to upgrade to Gnome2.6 say (slated release march 22!!) I used to go to Nyquist RPMS, but he's already dropped RH9 from support and moved on to FC1. If I want to stay on RH9, I will either have to (say if I want Gnome 2.6) 1. Learn RPM compilation (Daunting for a newbie like me. (I have a couple of years experience but still find spec ) (files daunting ) 2. Use Garnome or some other system 3. Use Gentoo/BSD/some other distro with ports For the time being, I'm grabbing src rpms and re-compiling them -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
