On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 16:24, William Hooper wrote: > WipeOut said: > >>Okay, so that begs the question...IIRC, the Fedora community will only > >>support a released version of FC for approx two months after the release > >> of > >>a new version, which means that FC1 and RHL9 will both have their > >>errata/security update support discontinued at about the same time. For > >>what amount of time is the WBEL community committing to support a > >> released > >>version after the next one comes out? > >> > > Its based on the SRPM's from RHEL3 so for as long as RH release updates > > to RHEL (5 years if I rememeber correctly) there should be updates > > availible for WBEL.. > > Actually John (the one who set up the Whitebox project) has said nothing > of the kind. Since he is doing this as part of his work at a library, his > interests are those of the library. IIRC he has even stated that if they > like RHEL4 better they might just make a new Whitebox version for that, > which might mean he stops recompiling any updates for the current version > of Whitebox. > > Of course Whitebox has nothing to do with Fedora, therefore is OT here. > > -- > William Hooper > I can't refute that it's off topic, nevertheless I think it's interresting, and I guess a lot of old RH-users agrees with me. How strict are we going to be? Many on this list has RH-servers running and, like me, are a little nervous about switching to FC1 on the servers, so discussions about other possibilities is definitely in the scope of interrest for a great deal of people on this list.... Sturla
