[ale] Distro question...

Aditya Srinivasan sriad at uab.edu
Fri Nov 12 08:34:18 EST 2004


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 (until last November) where I have an outdated Distro (RH 6.2) with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.

-- 
Thanks,
sriad



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