On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Andreas-Johann Ulvestad wrote: > Yes, of course... but I'm whining mostly over the fact that RHL 8.0 comes > out.. we start testing it, we wait for the first erratas to come out so > that it becomes more "mature".. we start porting it.. and within we're > ready to start pumping out workstations or something like that to > customers, there's another major release out so we need to start the > freeking thing again.. and when we've installed and shipped the computer > out, it's gone 9 months.. 3 months later, RedHat will stop making security > fixes, etc.
Well, as it has been said before, the one year thing is a minimum; they will probably (and almost certainly need to) make at least some security fixes available well beyond a year. It would be suicidal to stop issuing very important updates for the backbone services that linux is famous for: web, bind, sendmail, etc. It would be a public relations disaster for Red Hat to NOT provide patches for cases we have seen before -- some destructive worm sweeping across the internet. So I am going to chose to believe, from all I've read, that certain important security patches will be available over some longer period of time -- until proved otherwise. I suspect that many businesses will welcome the Enterprise edition. I heard some of the rhetoric from a Legato Networker salesman this morning; we are going to hear it a lot from sales drones who are selling software. They like it. From what I've seen of some small businesses running linux servers, they need something like this. I've had to go over enough times and help some poor sod of a system admin. at the Parc Scientifique across the street that I'm convinced that at least some of them _really_ need it. People like me in academia will continue to run my workstations and servers on the rapidly mutating red hat linux version. My upgrade cycle is and has been pretty much always been: keep the desktops on the bleeding edge, keep my servers just a bit behind. As long as certain key errata are available, I'll be happy enough. -- denice.deatrich @ epfl.ch, DSC / LTHC-LTHI, E.P.F.L. PH: +41 (21) 693 76 67 <*> This moment's fortune cookie: If the government doesn't trust the people, why doesn't it dissolve them and elect a new people? -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
