Redhat 9, and critical systems

[kyle at breezy.com (kyle at breezy.com)]

For me, it is just a personal project.  I have Fedore on another PC, 
SuSE 8 on my laptop, and may install SuSE on my StarMax (Mac Clone).  
The RH 9 PC is a mix of parts from my old web server (RH 7), and a M$ 
Win98 box from my old office.  The 4GB HD in it died a few days after 
the Netgear TA.  The 18GB was earmarked for a server, but services were 
moved to another ISP.  So for the price of a NIC.  I have a DHCP, 
Firewall for a fraction of the cost for a Cisco, LinkSys (Cisco), 
Netgear, etc... box.

I use to work for an ISP that had Zebra (for FreeBSD) setup at a remote 
location.  I didn't have direct access to that server, and don't know 
what version they were using.  But did deal with customer complaints 
about routing issues.  I knew RH 9 included Zebra. 

Kyle Plummer

David Backeberg wrote:

> So I've seen two posts in the last 24 hours asking about help with 
> Redhat 9. My question to these people and the list in general is:
> are people deploying new systems with Redhat 9 these days, and if so, 
> have they located a free, prompt source of updates, being that Redhat 
> dropped official support for RH9 in April?
>
> There's the Fedora project, there's SUSE, there's debian, gentoo, 
> Mandrake, etc. They all still have free updates, and current versions 
> don't have such nasty license restrictions as Redhat.
>
> Am I missing something that makes RH9 so attractive to people? Or does 
> everybody just have old media hanging around that they keep using?
>
>  -- David Backeberg (dave at math.mit.edu)
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> MIT Math Dept.
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