red hat is stoping production

[mcncyo]

As previously communicated, Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and
errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December
31, 2003. Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for
Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004. Red Hat does not plan to release
another product in the Red Hat Linux line.

With the recent announcement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.3, you'll
find migrating to Enterprise Linux appealing. We understand
that transitioning to another Red Hat solution requires careful planning
and implementation. We have created a migration plan for Red Hat Network
customers to help make the transition as simple and seamless as
possible.


Are you going to switch to a new OS or stay with red hat or ugrade to enterprise?

[noppid]

I'll decide in April probably. I only use RH9 for an iptables router/firewall.

[Erwin]

You can probably stick with RH 9 even after EOL, since a 3rd parties will continue to provide support.

[xheliox]

Don't forget about Fedora, RHLP's replacement. The release cycle will still be slow enough for most people to handle..

I already have Fedora Core 0.95 running on two servers without issue.

[Erwin]

Fedora is still beta and control panels don't support it though.

[N.B.]

Wow, great topic :)

Linux is quite important to myself, since I use it every single day. On my desktop and on our servers.
I started to use RedHat quite some time ago, and I still think it is the best distro on the market for semi prof stuff. We use it on most of our web servers and it runs really brilliant.
We had some SuSE servers with strange kernel bugs, not supported hardware and so on ...
With RedHat everything became easy, even updating process, just up2date and everything is fine ...

Now we stand at a point where it is not sure what happens. I would like to go with RedHat, but for most of our projects the Enterprise Edition is far over the budget. 60 USD for 1 year up to date service is okay, but 200 ?
Not possible in the hosting bizz. So I was looking into Debian some days ago. Setup a little EPIA box and I am playing around. Seems quite nice as well ...

So for myself and infact the company I work for there 2 possibilities:
Either we will switch ot Debian. Migriation will take QUITE a while for all our systems and we spent quite a bit on RedHat entitlements ..

And the other thing is: we see what comes out of Fedora. Personally most of our projects run on a serpate server so I am glad about not being in the position where it would be necessary to use a control panel. The betas work quite fine, thats true so far. The only problem now is: how do we get the upgrades ?
I hope it will head in the same direction as Debian. apt is good tool, maybe we will see apt-rpm soon ?
I hope so ...

and if not, I guess Debian will by our new friend.

[RichM]

It is a shame to see RedHat linux non enterprise edition go. I have no idea what we will do.

[mbozio]

I just finished to install Fedora on a spare box. Good news, up2date is still there and we can subscribe to 2 dedicated channel, Fedora Core 1 and Update-release.

So far, i didn't notice anything special about it but the charset been handled way better imo (under apache)

Good start.