On Wednesday 22 October 2003 11:29, William Hooper wrote: > Then you need either a) a team of coders to backport security fixes > to the versions of the software you want to use or b) buy RHEL and > rent Red Hat's team of coders to backport security fixes. No, what I need is an operating system from a vendor who understands that server life needs to be more than a year. > Have you bothered to talk to RH sales at all? IIRC there was someone > that posted about a quote for their .edu that ended up being > ~$50/seat for 100 seats. That is less than the subscription to RHN. Yes. I talked to RH sales. An .edu gets a completely different price scale. And servers don't get "per seat" licenses. > Redhat's EOL for their releases have been posted for a while: > http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/ That was my point. You can make it yours, though, if you wish <smile>. > As others have pointed out > there is a "Fedora-Legacy" movement out to do some back porting of > fixes and such after RH's EOL. If you go with option a) above then > you have the resources to contribute to this if you wish. I just joined that list, and I'm looking forward to seeing something besides a webpage. I think it's time for me to bow out of this thread. I believe I've made it clear I love RHL and I love linux, and I'm frustrated by RH's direction. I answered the original post and I don't control this thread, but I'm going to bow out. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, nobaloney.net, P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 US Professional Internet Services & Support / Consulting / Colocation Our blists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 324-9706, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
