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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.
From what I can tell, Debian offers:
- ease of installation
- ease of use (apt-get)
- stability
- warm glow
I'm now uninstalling RedHat 7.3 and running Debian stable. Who cares about the cutting edge? I have users to serve.
"And the meaning of words; when they cease to function; when will it start worrying you?"
Haha, you get marked for trolling just because it's windows.
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oh my god was it hard to install
Awww, poor baby...
Actually getting that card to work is tricky in most "versions" of linux. The easiest way is to download the DOS utility from 3com and disable PnP and hard code the irq and io address. Then pass the arguments to the module. Simple as that.
To translate what you said
Better masturbating for 8 years than 2 years of good sex.
But then again, YOU'RE WRONG! If You don't know, there's a little difference between RH stoping support Linux and M$ for Windows 98.
After RH support stops, do you think that people will stop updating Samba, Apache, etc. All of these (new and updated) are still compatible with RH Linux 7 and 8.
After M$ drops support who will provide patches and support? Sorry, no one can, not that no one would
You just forget one thing while M$ is the sole developer of Windows, Linux is made by community, and there's no limit on support and patches, except if project dies. But then again, Corporations (and their software) die too.
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Troll, I know, but...
There's a huge, huge difference between a closed product that drops support, and an open product that 'drops support' but a) has source code available, b) has an open community supporting it, c) and still has people still working on the actual components.
Would people complain about MS dropping support for Win98 if they released the source code (and it wasn't so bug ridden that it made win98 completely unuseable) so that others could devel on it? I think not.
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