On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 18:52, Marcia Wilbur wrote:
> some interesting info on the future of "support"f or some RH versions.
> 
> -m
> 
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Where have you been hiding - this has been their announced policy for
more maybe close to a year now...

They have it on their web site...
<http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/>

Red Hat Enterprise (2.1)
<http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/rhlas_errata_policy.html>

'End of Life' products
<http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/archives/>

It does make sense at least on some issues...that they don't want to tie
up their resources patching / updating / backporting and then testing
products.

More to the point was their change to their Red Hat Network account
(up2date) - this was a tremendous feature that they added, updating the
installed packages with a single command line (up2date -u). They started
out by giving it to everyone who registered and then they made it a $60
per year per computer deal.

There is a fairly well defined 'apt-get' / 'yum' setup now for updating
Red Hat and it may very well be that the updates might be gotten from
sources other than Red Hat. For example, see <http://www.freshrpms.net>

Craig