RE: Installation after RH Support Ends

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: shrike-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:shrike-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of William Hooper
> Ow Mun Heng said:
> 
> > 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
> 
> 4. Use Fedora Core which was conceived because some users want new
> releases of packages faster.
> 
> You are talking about two different things.  Servers shouldn't change
> (hence the Fedora Legacy project only releasing security fixes).


Yes.. I know.. I'm saying this for the 3rd Time.. 

Fedora-legacy is good for servers.. (security fixes etc.)

Home Users are the ones which will be "strapped".

Option 4 is most certainly welcomed. However, that would usually mean
a total re-installation. (I don't really trust upgrading rh9->fc1)


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