[ale] [bob at verysecurelinux.com: Red Hat support stopping]

[mark]

It was my understanding that Redhat 9 expired April 30, 2004.  Here's the 
email I received.  Has this changed, up2date ends Dec. 31??

"As previously communicated, Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and
errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December 
31, 2003. Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for 
Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004. Red Hat does not plan to release 
another product in the Red Hat Linux line."

--Mark





On Tuesday 02 December 2003 02:41 am, Bob Toxen wrote:
> This is a reminder that Red Hat has announced that it will stop providing
> support -- including security patches -- for Red Hat 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8, 9
> after December 31, 2003.  If you have been relying on up2date to
> automagically fix any security bugs, this stops at the end of this month.
>
> For one client that uses Linux as a basic web and email server, the best
> solution was for us simply to get the patches directly from the Sendmail
> and Apache sites, compile, and install.  For another, they pay to license
> Red Hat's only supported (and somewhat expensive) "commercial" version
> on a single system.  We then use software we have developed to replicate
> the RPMs to his other systems -- which is legal to do.  For some other
> clients we will be moving them to different Linux Distributions.
>
> Bob Toxen
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