[svlug] RedHat Linux end-of-life decisions

Mike Castle dalgoda at ix.netcom.com
Mon Jan 26 09:37:21 PST 2004


On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04:09:23PM -0500, Greg Larkin wrote:
> I've also heard about Progeny
> (http://www.progeny.com/products/transition.html), a company offering to
> continue supporting various levels of RedHat OSs, including RH 9.  The price
> is cheap, but I wonder if I'm just putting off the inevitable?  And who
> knows what kind of an update system they will offer and if it will be any
> good.  Ideally, I'd love to see a plug-compatible "/usr/sbin/up2date"
> command-line tool, but that's probably asking a lot.  Also, who is Progeny
> and can they even be trusted?

>From http://progeny.com/about/index.html :

Progeny was founded by Debian Linux creator Ian Murdock.

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