fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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? > I think you missed my point. The EOL of RH9 is a *different* issue from the EOL of RHL as a product line. Yes, I knew that RH9 would EOL. No, I hadn't realised that RHL *itself* was going away. > [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. > I do that when I can - I must have missed it. Keep in mind that I'm not really griping, just adding my experience to the discussion. >> 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 Again, these are two different issues. When was the product line EOL announced? -Don
