Re: OT: RH end-of-life

Arthur,

As it is, Redhat do an awful lot of work maintaining packages so I can
kinda see where they are coming from with this.

It should be fairly easy to upgrade your desktop systems though using some
cunning kickstart scripts in update mode.
I appreciate that that involves man hours if you've got a LOT of them to do.

Why don't you consider LTSP ? (http://www.ltsp.org)
That'd give you just a bunch of diskless remote X terminals to look after.
All you'd need to keep 'up2date' is the main server.

Regards,
Cammy.

Arthur Clune said:
>
> 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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