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Red Hat Linux 9 Reaches End-of-Life

Posted by michael on from the switch-to-debian dept.

egburr writes "Well, today is the last day for Red Hat Linux 9. The Fedora Legacy Project is supposed to start legacy support. I am still planning to stick with RHL9, for a while at least. How many others are planning to do the same? How many are switching to Fedora? How many are switching to some other distribution altogether? How many have already switched? For people still using earlier levels of Red Hat Linux (6.x,7.x,8), how well has the Fedora Legacy Project worked for you?"

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  1. I'm already using fedora legacy by sw155kn1f3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm already using fedora legacy to update rh8.0 and 7.2 boxes (only four fortunately).

    No complains.
    apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade from fedora legacy work flawlessly.

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  2. Re:Debian by justsomebody · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When RedHat decided to throw in the towel for any real distro

    When did this happen'?

    Redhat just moved people distro where it belongs. Between people.

    Redhat still supports development in Fedora, and even funds it. Funny I've been noticing only improvements (since the change) and no stepbacks. Fedora is just as supported as RH ever was, no better, no worse (except there's much more choices now, yum instead up2date, and more public repositories). You'd notice if you try to search package for RH9 and same package for Fedora.

    I really don't know what is people problem with Fedora and neither does anyone that didn't jump to conclusion before even trying.

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