Williak Hooper wrote: > I have no pity for anyone who has waited this long to decide what to > do when RHL 9 goes EOL. Red Hat has provided RHEL (and even one month > evaluations for users who don't have access via RHN) for testing. > Red Hat has kept their end of the bargain on RHL 9 support, even > though the RHL line is ending. Red Hat offered half price deals for > two years on RHEL WS and ES. Red Hat has changed the RHN support of > RHPW so that it is now renewable. Anyone that says (and what started > my involvement in this thread) that they didn't know RHL 9's EOL was > coming up has had their head in the sand for longer than RHL 9 has > been out. > Must be me, then. I knew that previous releases of RHL were EOL-ing; I was able to assume that RH9 would do so too at some poont in time. I did not, however, know anything about the Fedora project, nor did I hear anything about not just EOL for RH9 but RHL itself until some time around November of 2003. Should I, as a (home) sysadmin, have read anything and everything I could possibly get on the subject of RHL? Perhaps... if I had nothing else to do with my time. I can't even read every message here. Would it have been nice for RH to have included a note as to their intentions in their regularly-published email updates that all "free" RHN users get? Yeah, that would have been nice. Sure, I support what they've done, to the extent that they are free to make their own business decisions for their products and services. BTW, they day that I got the notification of RH9EOL, I got the Fedora ISOs and converted my personal machines soon afterwards. Since my mail/web server is stable, I am planning the upgrade based upon FC2 when released. -Don
