Re: Problems with Redhat 9

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 05:08:52PM -0700, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:45:52PM -0700, Yazz D. Atlas told me:
> > Wow, didn't think mentioning Debian would spin this thread like it did.
> 
> I think it was a good thread...Thanks! :)

I think Debian was at the forefront of everyone's mind anyway. Yazz was just
the first to say it. :)

> > Talking to one of my co-workers with friends over at Redhat (this is all
> > hearsay mind you ) the EOL for 7.3 has more to do with phone support
> > maintenance then anything else. Security updates for example would still
> > continue past December 31, 2003. Thats what I'm hearing from my sources
> > at least, again I must stress this is hearsay and not fact.

hmm. interesting.
I guess that makes sense.

> I
> personally feel safer with a community solution... Also it wouldn't it be 
> nice to have the hackers rule the distro/world? :)
> 
> Maybe I am an extremist. Maybe just an Open Source model bigot!

Greg, didn't you use to be a Debian user, and wrote GRAB because you needed
something like APT when the school made you use RH?

Carl Soderstrom.
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Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
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