[ale] [bob at verysecurelinux.com: Red Hat support stopping]

[Bob Toxen]

I stand corrected.  It is April 30, 2004 for RH 9.
Thanks for catching this.

Bob

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 07:54:30AM -0500, mark wrote:
> It was my understanding that Redhat 9 expired April 30, 2004.  Here's the 
> email I received.  Has this changed, up2date ends Dec. 31??
> 
> "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."
> 
> --Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 02 December 2003 02:41 am, Bob Toxen wrote:
> > This is a reminder that Red Hat has announced that it will stop providing
> > support -- including security patches -- for Red Hat 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8, 9
> > after December 31, 2003.  If you have been relying on up2date to
> > automagically fix any security bugs, this stops at the end of this month.
> >
> > For one client that uses Linux as a basic web and email server, the best
> > solution was for us simply to get the patches directly from the Sendmail
> > and Apache sites, compile, and install.  For another, they pay to license
> > Red Hat's only supported (and somewhat expensive) "commercial" version
> > on a single system.  We then use software we have developed to replicate
> > the RPMs to his other systems -- which is legal to do.  For some other
> > clients we will be moving them to different Linux Distributions.
> >
> > Bob Toxen
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