Re: [Nolug] Distro suggestions

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 05:06, Joey Kelly wrote:
> Thou spake:
>
> <snip>
>
> >Will see if the hosting
> >provider makes any offer to go for RH Enterprise for free.
>
>
> This raises a very interesting point... RedHate will no longer support any of
> their existing distros after June 2004. How many tens (hundreds?) of
> thousands of RH servers are out there? Will there no longer be patches for
> these servers beyond end-of-life? How many admins are going to migrate to
> another distro in disgust? It looks to me af if RHAT is going to lose a lot
> of its userbase. I for one would not consider purchasing any "enterprise"
> product.

What other Linux companies offer security updates for 2 year old
releases?

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