[ale] Distro question...

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Thu Nov 11 17:59:27 EST 2004


Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Jay Finch wrote:
> 
> 
>> That's a very good point, Jonathan!  My only concern is that Redhat
>>  doesn't offer support for RH9 any longer, and there's a
>> possibility that the support through Fedoralegacy.org will
>> eventually be discontinued.  I don't want to be the situation I was
>> (until last November) where I have an outdated Distro (RH 6.2) with
>> no easy update path.  (I purged and went to RH9 because the server
>> got compromised.)
> 
> 
> Wondering .... If that is the main concern, then perhaps Suse and
> Slackware could also possibly present problems in the future ?? 
> Debian may be the best bet.

I've upgraded SuSE from 6.0 to 9.2, I don't think that's going to be a 
problem.  I don't think you'll have a problem with Slack updates either.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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