Red Hat Network

How does it work

[carneddau]

Hi,

I'm pretty new to Red Hat and Linux in general. I've been looking into the best way to keep my RH9 system up to date with all the latest patches. The Red Hat Network seems to be a nice simple way to do this. However, after signing up I received a bunch of emails from Red Hat the last of which said that the channel I'm subscribed to has reached "End of Life".

Does this mean that future patches and fixes will not be released for my version of RH (Redhat Linux 9.0)?

There are a bunch of updates scheduled to happen on my machine through the Red Hat Network, the latest patches seem to be from a few days ago. So it looks like it's still being supported even though it's reached end of life, right?

If anyone else is familiar with the Red Hat Network and can provide any help on this it would be appreciated.

Cheers

[outrun]

Does this mean that future patches and fixes will not be released for my version of RH (Redhat Linux 9.0)?

Correct there will be no security or bug fixes developed by Redhat, for redhat 9, but there are places that provide updates but I know of none that are free.

regards
Mark

[SeanW]

[fedoralegacy.org...] is providing free patches for RH9 for the next while (I think 12-18 months). I'd suggest upgrading to Fedora and take advantage of the latest code. You can use up2date or yum to keep it up to date.

Sean

[edited by: bakedjake at 12:41 pm (utc) on May 11, 2004]
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