Don Levey said: > 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; So when Red Hat said that RHL releases were going to have 12 months of support, you didn't think that applied to RHL 9? [snip] > 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. Browsing various news sites would be sufficent. The EOL announcement got a bunch of press. > 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. Generally announcements that I get from the redhat-announce list are also accompanied by announcements from RHN. The message from April 2003 gives the link to http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata which has had RHL 9's EOL date from the day it was released. -- William Hooper
