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small servers shouldn't be using point-oh releases

Posted Jan 4, 2003 3:41 UTC (Sat) by djao (subscriber, #4263)
In reply to: No product for small servers by skarkkai
Parent article: Distribution support: how long is long enough?

No one is suggesting that you run redhat 8.0 on a small server. In fact, I would argue that the only versions of redhat you should ever even consider for a server are the final revisions (4.2, 5.2, 6.2, 7.3) of each major version.

These final revisions have, historically, had much longer than "only one year of support", and I see no reason why the recent announcement would change that.

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Posted Jan 4, 2003 16:59 UTC (Sat) by skarkkai (subscriber, #4128) [Link]

In an email I got from Redhat's Mark J Cox he listed end of life dates for errata support for some versions:

Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) December 31, 2003
Red Hat Linux 7.3 (Valhalla) December 31, 2003
Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Enigma) December 31, 2003
Red Hat Linux 7.1 (Seawolf) December 31, 2003
Red Hat Linux 7.0 (Guinness) March 31, 2003
Red Hat Linux 6.2 (Zoot) March 31, 2003

Which gives support lifetime of about 1.5 years for Redhat 7.3.

7.3 lifetime

Posted Jan 4, 2003 17:28 UTC (Sat) by djao (subscriber, #4263) [Link]

Well, I may be wrong, and I will eat my words if I am, but I think redhat 7.3 is the one version out of that list that is likely to have its support life extended past the announced date.