Red Hat and product lifespan

[Dustin Decker]

I'm finding Gentoo to be more and more attractive in this vein as time
progresses closer to Dec. 31, 2003.
Typing in "emerge --update system" to update core system packages looks
pretty darned easy to me.  
(Or perhaps even "emerge --update world" to update ALL software.)

I like what the folks at Gentoo have had to say in their on-line philosophy
(http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/philosophy.xml), as well as their social
contract (http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml).  It feels a lot more
like what Linux really meant to me when I first started using it seven years
ago.

Dustin

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Dave Hull
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:13 AM
Cc: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: Red Hat and product lifespan

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> So why do I need to "upgrade" to a new version of RedHat?  The only 
> answer is simply to support RedHat's bottom line - at the expens of my
own.

For security updates? Eventually, RH will stop sending out patches to plug
holes. When that time comes, you could go back to building Apache, MySQL and
PHP by hand from sources, which is what I had to do in the early days of
PHP3 when RH didn't ship Apache with PHP support compiled in, nor was PHP
tied into MySQL.

Keeping "up2date" sure makes life easier.

I still don't know what I'm going to do, but I've used Debian in the past
and probably will again.

--
Dave Hull
http://insipid.com

GRUB?  What does THAT do?  Will the name litany ever turn to logic in
desperation?
-- Steve Nordquist, Re: Redhat 7.2, 10/23/01