End of Life for Red Hat 7.x, 8.0

thelenm writes "Red Hat announced today that the 7.x and 8.0 distributions have reached their errata maintenance end-of-life. Red Hat 9 reaches its end-of-life on April 30. The options for those who want to stick with Red Hat are Red Hat Enterprise Linux or the Fedora Project, as described on their Migration Resource Center page. Or of course, you might take this opportunity to select another option." This day's been a long time coming, but it's finally here.

Comments

Other options?

[sp00]

Why is debian always the "other option" when there are lots of alternatives?

Re:Other options?

[MoThugz]

Slight misconception in your post.

Slackware is _not_ a souce based distro. It uses it's own packages (commonly referred to as slackpacks) which are actually plain tarballs (.tgz). It even pre-dates RPMs (possibly even debs, but don't take my word on that... I'm no Linux historian).

what the hell

[prockcore]

What the hell is with all these people bitching? You can upgrade to Fedora for free.

"Waah, redhat isn't supporting my free OS even though they've released a free upgrade for me"

Re:Why not use Fedora Legacy's yum repositories?

[CliffH]

I'm sure they didn't mention those repositories for legal reasons (ie. We don't mention it, we're not responsible for anything that happens if you use them). In any event, the word should get out a little better about those repositories. Myself, I've got clients on everything that has been dumped (7.3-8.0) and what will soon be dumped (9.0) and am getting even more clients wanting to make the switch. None of them are duanted by the decision of one distributor of one distribution. It's about the level support they get directly from their supplier (me) as opposed to the company putting it out.This can't be said for large installations, that I know, but a school of all places (primary, secondary, high schools, etc) shouldn't have a problem with it. Hell, that gives and computer studies courses a serious project throughout the year as far as I can see it. Let me throw a little situation at you:

1) Walla Walla High School decides to convert all internal student systems to Linux (including student servers, library systems, etc)

2) Once the framework is in place, students are picked out of each computer class whom have a level of skill and competency (and trustworthiness) to let administer the student network.

3) Students suggest upgrades or changes that the school admin never thought of or didn't have the time to implement

4) Students implement changes. Some work, some don't

5) Everyone learns

6) School offers "innovative learning environment using the latest software to enrich your childs knowledge of computing in the digital age" (why couldn't I come up with lines of BS like this when I had to)

In any event, now that I'm thoroughly off topic, I'll end with this. RedHat doesn't mention the repositories because, if they did, they can be held liable for anyting that happens to systems using said repositories. A recommendation can and would be construed as an endorsement.

CliffH