On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 04:17, Gokul Poduval wrote: > Hello Richard, > My situation is also very similar. I have two servers running redhat 9 > and one running 7.3. I don't think I will go ahead with installing > fedora on them yet, at least not until it proves itself. > Eventually, I am thinking of migrating to debian. Debian seems to have > a nice record with security updates. I am sure it will require some > retraining, but that probably worth the peace of mind. > > Regards, > Gokul Poduval > http://pod.homelinux.net > > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:50, Rickard Svoren wrote: > > Thanks for this email Peter > > > > We are not in need for any external support services today, we have been using > > RHL since version 6.2 ( i found an old RHL 4.2 Box yesterday so there might > > be even longer :-). > > > > My main concern is security updates and stability, and of course upgrading 1-2 > > times a year is possible but not desirable. I have been looking at Suse, Debian > > and Slackware aswell but it seems like waste to change distro when we have RHL > > competence in our company. But we do not like to get jailed into Redhat's > > commersial > > train.... > An option not mentioned in this thread is sticking with 7.3 or 9 for a while and see if the fedora-legacy team lives up to its goal of providing fixes after the EOL of the RHL products. If this is of interest take a look at http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy There may be a great opportunity for you to give back to the community by testing or something if you are not a developer. Bret
