RedHat kills RH Linux consumer versions

HCL Domino Domino Forum
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This may not be news for some, but quite surprised me today. I got a message from RH, stating they will stop support for all RH linux version up to and including 8 by december 31, 2003. Support for RH 9 stops in april 2004. If you want to stay on RH, you will have to move to RH Enterprise.
Time to move to Suse, I think. At least, Suse is part of UnitedLinux, wich is supported. Does anyone know wich Suse releases are powered by UnitedLinux?

An excerpt of the RH message:

This e-mail provides you with important information about the upcoming

discontinuation of Red Hat Linux, and resources to assist you with your

migration to another Red Hat solution.

As previously communicated, Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and

errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December

31, 2003. Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for

Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004. Red Hat does not plan to release

another product in the Red Hat Linux line.

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Subject: Oops! Where did you found this?

I can’t find any confirmation on their website.

I was just testing Domino on RedHat to make a move from W2000 to Linux :frowning:

Oh, just found this:

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Subject: Received a message from RH Networks

It was an email message from RH Networks. I think IBM knew about this some time already, and that’s probably why ND6.5 isn’t supported on RH7.x or RH8. RH will only do enterprise versions in the future, and Domino is supported on those releases. For me, it probably means migrating to Suse 8.2…

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Subject: RE: Received a message from RH Networks

Hm, i didn’t find the lines where RedHat says it’s not going to bring out new release besides the enterprise version.What i understand from the pdf i posted, is that there will be 2 products:

For the future Red Hat

will support these two very different markets with separate offerings. For the

open source community the new Red Hat Fedora project will provide leading

edge technology and rapid development cycles, while Red Hat Enterprise Linux

products will meet the needs of the retail/commercial market.

Off course they recomend everyone to buy the enterprise version, and because of the cooperation with IBM, IBM/Lotus does the same.

Btw. is Suse also available on ISO cd-roms instead of this stupid ftp installation???

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Subject: Full text of message

"Thank you for being a Red Hat Network customer.

This e-mail provides you with important information about the upcoming

discontinuation of Red Hat Linux, and resources to assist you with your

migration to another Red Hat solution.

As previously communicated, Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and

errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December

31, 2003. Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for

Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004. Red Hat does not plan to release

another product in the Red Hat Linux line. (emphasis mine - Gerco)

With the recent announcement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.3, you’ll

find migrating to Enterprise Linux appealing. We understand

that transitioning to another Red Hat solution requires careful planning

and implementation. We have created a migration plan for Red Hat Network

customers to help make the transition as simple and seamless as

possible. Details: blahblahblah" .

There will be new releases, but only in the Enterprise range apparently.

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Subject: Same here…

Subject: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning

Date: 3/11/2003

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Subject: RE: Received a message from RH Networks

Perhaps someone at IBM should have told Alan :wink:

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Subject: RedHat kills RH Linux consumer versions

What affect will this have on Lotus support for Domino running on 7.2, 7.3 which were supported platforms on 1st Oct 2003

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/55c38d716d632d9b8525689b005ba1c0/65ccc83bf843923685256db200666047?OpenDocument

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Subject: RE: RedHat kills RH Linux consumer versions

If you’re looking at

We’re in the position that for larger, enterprise customers, we’ll be using enterprise distros with them. For smaller customers, we’ll be testing either RH or Suse non-enterprise distros.

What this basically means is this: If you’re running a public (meaning, not behind a firewall) domino linux server on a non-enterprise rh distro, you need to figure out how you’re going to keep it updated. (i.e. yum, apt-get).

If you’re running a private, internal linux server, it’s not as big an issue until you are going to have to upgrade hardware and potentially future domino versions.

I wouldn’t run away from RH just because they want you to buy the enterprise versions. Right now, I’m considering Suse because of the Novell acquisition more than anything being done by IBM.

Jon Johnston

Creative Business Solutions