riding on the horns of a dilemma
Gentlemen...
We are on the horns of a dilemma...
All Red Hat support and RHN up2date service (including critical security updates) will cease for all versions of RHL through RHL8 as of the end of this year, and all of the same will cease for RH9 before the end of next year.
Red Hat has announced that they will produce new whole-version numbers each year and that up2date support (including critical security updates) will last one year from product introduction.
Then more recently they announced that they'll no longer produce Red Hat Linux retail product at all.
My next guess is that at some time in the near future (within a year) they'll realize that without the (admittedly relatively small) income stream from boxed packages, they've got no reason to actually even create whole-number releases.
If they should do that, then they'll end up with a formalized version of what they're currently putting into place: RHL "free" versions as an ongoing beta for their expensive Advanced product line.
Since none of us want to pay upwards of us$1,000 for Red Hat Linux (especially not those of us who have lots of systems), that leaves us in an environment that's getting harder to support every day.
(Most of the hosting companies I'm familiar with have been quite happy with either RHL 6.2 or RHL 7.3, depending on when their systems were installed, and some of us are already a half-year into the dismal future, depending on catch-as-catch-can security support.)
How do we get off from these horns?
My suggestion would be Free BSD.
Gentlemen (Mark and John),
Are you working on support for Free BSD?
How quickly
?
Jeff