New distro question

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 12:33 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Yes, RHEL is a very different story from Fedora. Even RHEL3 does still
get security fixes. I believe RHEL3 U9 was the last full "active
development" release, so 10 releases, one every ~6mo, so 5 years of
active development and updates, and now you get another 2 years of
security fixes ("maintenance mode").



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Jarod Wilson
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