On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > -----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 Why would you be restricted to the above three options, when I seem to recall it having been stated that Fedora-Legacy will be supporting RHL9, as well? -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
