On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:36:39 +0100 (CET), you wrote: > >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. > > So you wait 3 to 6 months after the release of 8.0 or 9 to allow the > initial bugs to be worked out and for you to gain confidence that your > server will work as expected, and oops you now only have 6 to 9 months > of errata left unless Red Hat decides to be generous and extend the > errata period. So are you going to add your servers to the upgrade > cycle, or are you going to pay for the Enterprise edition?
Well, I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens. I really can't imagine a scenario where Red Hat refuses to provide patches for bugs labelled by security watchgroups as 'high risk factors' -- these are almost the only errata I would be really concerned about on my servers anyway. A gazillion patches for gnome, kde, xfree86, mozilla, etc. are not very interesting on a server; and if Red Hat stops issuing them, it won't matter too much. However, if they did the same for the high-risk bugs, then I would be flabbergasted. It would be suicidal. They will have to provide the patches for the dangerous bugs ANYway for the enterprise editions; how much larger an effort is it to provide patches for the high risk bugs for the RHL releases of the last, say, two years? I really think that Red Hat has to address this issue -- not all errata are 'equal'. cheers, denice -- denice.deatrich @ epfl.ch, DSC / LTHC-LTHI, E.P.F.L. PH: +41 (21) 693 76 67 <*> This moment's fortune cookie: Q: What do agnostic, insomniac dyslexics do at night? A: Stay awake and wonder if there's a dog. -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
