New distro question

[Michael ODonnell]

> Once a fedora release goes end-of-life, there are no more updates,
> period.  For example, Fedora Core 6 went end-of-life a few months
> ago, and hasn't had a security update of any sort released since.
> So you have to upgrade the system to the next Fedora release
> (or the one after) to keep getting any sort of updates at all.

Some of the systems I work with are still based on the
steam-powered RHEL3 distribution and to our surprise we are
not (well, not always) being told to go fsck ourselves when we
report bugs against it.  Of course, the RHAT folks I've been
dealing with have been careful to remind me that no further
development is being done on RHEL3 and that I shouldn't expect
much support, but a number of security updates and a limited
set of app/lib updates have nevertheless been provided, and I
received a new kernel source tree for the 2.4.21-54.EL kernel
just this morning containing a fix for a bug I reported.

I've always been partial to Debian over RHAT (I'm another who's
been running the Unstable branch on several machines since
approx 2000 with no regrets) but this sort of treatment from
RHAT definitely doesn't suck, so credit where credit is due...