OT: RH end-of-life

Ok, a little off-topic, so list-admins feel free to kill the thread, but...

RH annonced new dates for end-of-life on their products last month
with little fuss. Suddenly it's on The Reg and /. and getting lots of
publicity.

I'd pretty much pursading people here to start looking at moving
our supported desktops in student classroms from Win2k to RedHat.

Now with there published 1 year lifetime, it's not looking at all practical.
What do those of you that run desktop systems think?

Arthur

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