Re: RHL 9 - concerns
Matthew Miller <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:13:55PM -0500, Brent Fox wrote: > Based on the number of registered systems on Red Hat Network, we see > that the vast majority of our current users are running 7.3 or 8.0. > That means that most of our users have upgraded their machines in the > last 12 months. I'm sure that there are plenty of 6.2 machines still > kicking out there, but I think that the impact of the shortened errata > policy is exaggerated somewhat. For what it's worth, going from 12 to 18 months would do a lot to make people happy. Or even 15. If releases continue come out every 6 months, there's not much breathing room between a brand new release and "must update right now", unless you plan on updating every nine months or so -- and that's too fast for anything but experimental. A 15-month policy would allow people to do yearly upgrades without feeling panicked near the end. This is doubly true if the version-to-version volatility is going up -- there's not much room to wait a few months after a release before installing it on all systems. Since I do security updates and support myself, I understand what a pain it is to continue to support multiple old releases, so I'm definitely sympathetic -- but I think it'd make a lot of your customers much happier if you added those three more months. -- Matthew Miller [email protected] <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- Phoebe-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list