> Actually if you read the pages that I linked - no release will have less
> than a 12 month support cycle - I believe RH9 has a listed 14 month
> cycle (EOL April-2004)

I am fully aware of the contents of this page and I fully understand that RH9 
was released in April and will die in April.  From Press release to grave RH9 
personal has from March 31 2003 to April 30 2004.

I was installing in early June and RH 9 was the newest available. I was lazy 
when I said that RH9's EOL was 9 months away from its release, its was 9 months 
away from when I had considered installing it.  Look, I am not badmouthing 
redhat in anyway so your defensiveness and "you should have read the URL"ing is 
unneccessary.  In reality, RH has plenty of products with long lifetimes.  Its 
enterprise versions last for years

http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/rhlas_errata_policy.html

Which is reasonable under certain circumstances, but sometimes people don't 
wanna or are unable to pay the dough.

> My experience with redhat upgrades has been excellent - YMMV

I shall try it again.

Austin