<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Paul Cartwright <<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri June 27 2008, Brian Pitts wrote:<br>
> I googled "red hat" "shrike" and lots of useful things came up. Shrike<br>
> is version 9, the last release, of Red Hat Linux.<br>
><br>
> "Since 2003, Red Hat has discontinued the Red Hat Linux line in favor of<br>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for enterprise environments. Fedora,<br>
> developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red<br>
> Hat, is the free version best suited for the home environment. Red Hat<br>
> Linux 9, the final release, hit its official end-of-life on 2004-04-30"<br>
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</div>so... shrike is PRE RHEL, is that what this is telling me??</blockquote><div><br>That a system is out there with a pile of security holes and it needs to be replaced/upgraded immediately. If for bazillion-year old application reasons it can't be upgraded, it will need to be severely firewalled and access limited for security reasons.<br>
<br>You can most likely run bazillion-year old app on a RedHat EL v.3. There are *compat libs that let older things run well.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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thanks for the info. I did google and got a few hits, but it didn't quite<br>
answer my question.. I think you did:)<br>
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