[ale] Distro question...

[Geoffrey]

Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> 
>> Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Jay Finch wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> That's a very good point, Jonathan!  My only concern is that
>>>> Redhat doesn't offer support for RH9 any longer, and there's a 
>>>> possibility that the support through Fedoralegacy.org will 
>>>> eventually be discontinued.  I don't want to be the situation I
>>>> was (until last November) where I have an outdated Distro (RH
>>>> 6.2) with no easy update path.  (I purged and went to RH9
>>>> because the server got compromised.)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Wondering .... If that is the main concern, then perhaps Suse and
>>>  Slackware could also possibly present problems in the future ??
>>>  Debian may be the best bet.
>> 
>> I've upgraded SuSE from 6.0 to 9.2, I don't think that's going to
>> be a problem.  I don't think you'll have a problem with Slack
>> updates either.
> 
> 
> Hmm. My concern was more along the lines of the possibility of free 
> upgrade support for Suse/Slackware being eventually discontinued at
> some point in the future. I perceive the likelihood of that happening
> with Debian, as being somewhat lower.

I don't know whether I would expect a corporate distro to start charging 
for updates or Debian to disappear.  I think both are unlikely.  Suse 
and Red Hat both get $$$ from purchased upgrades, thus I think they'll 
continue to exist in their current state.  I don't expect Debian to 
disappear either though.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey