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News: End of Life for Red Hat 9.0

Posted by: StewdioOn 2004/4/4 10:25:29 6519 reads

I'm posting this important news item to let users know that Red Hat Linux 9 distribution will reach its end-of-life for errata maintenance on April 30, 2004. This means that as of May 1, 2004 they will not be producing new security, bugfix, or enhancement updates for this product.

What affect this will have on the XOOPS community at large remains to be seen but it is worth closer investigation if you run enterprise solutions or mission critical sites in combination with XOOPS.

It is recommended that XOOPS users who run and maintain the Red Hat Linux 9.0 distibution look into migrating to the new Enterprise Linux or Fedora Project.

More information about migration choices can be found at:

http://www.redhat.com/solutions/migration/rhl/

Good Luck and Happy Xoopsing!

Stew Brennand
StewdioNet

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Re: End of Life for Red Hat 9.0

limecity Published 04/04/2004 10:36 Updated 04/04/2004 10:37 Friend of XOOPS Joined 07/06/2003 Comments 1602

Don't really know what you are trying to say here. So whats with the linux?

I am using XOops for my site. If my host upgrade the linux version. DOes that mean that my XOOPS won't be working anymore? Its not compatible with the new linux?

Get straight to the point of what you are trying to deliver. Is this a warning?

Okay , thanks

Re: End of Life for Red Hat 9.0

dyoo78 Published 04/04/2004 13:34 Just popping in Joined 02/01/2004 Comments 90

all he's saying is that Red Hat, the server on which your XOOPS is running (if your hosting provider uses RH 9), will no longer be supported.

There are different versions of linux, but if you're on a hosting provider, just call and find out what linux flavor they're running.

If they're running RH 9, back up everything, while they migrate to Fedora core 1.

Re: End of Life for Red Hat 9.0

Stewdio Published 04/04/2004 16:07 Community Support Member Joined 05/07/2003 Comments 1560

If your not working and interacting with Linux everyday, then this won't affect you.

Most Red Hat 9.0 users will have already known about this, I'm just passing information along to reach a broader audience.

If your only an XOOPS user, then you have nothing to worry about.

Re: End of Life for Red Hat 9.0

Draven Published 04/04/2004 22:09 Module Developer Joined 05/28/2003 Comments 337

All webhosts will just upgrade (those who haven't already) to the Enterprise Editions. So unless you are running your own server and can't pay for the Redhat Enterprise Edittions you have nothing to worry about. Redhat is still around they just aren't giving it away for free anymore. Well, actually they do have a free version still. Can't remeber the name off the top of my head though.

Re: End of Life for Red Hat 9.0

Jonasx Published 04/05/2004 19:11 Just popping in Joined 12/26/2003 Comments 5

Fedora is the next "free" branch of redhat. It's mainly a testing platform for their enterprise versions, if I understand their philosophy. It's development is structured around an aggressive release schedule and deadline dates.

As a side note, I run a couple of File servers on Fedora Core 1 and have had no problems whatsoever in 6 months.

http://fedora.redhat.com

Re: End of Life for Red Hat 9.0

mczolton Published 04/28/2004 16:19 Friend of XOOPS Joined 04/27/2004 Comments 31

Fedora appears to be too bleeding edge for enterprise level work. I would suspect most web hosts will want to move to RH Enterprise Linux (Advanced server). In that light, I have been running a pre-production XOOPS site on RH Linux Advanced Server 3 with no problems.

Re: End of Life for Red Hat 9.0

DonXoop Published 05/04/2004 15:36 Joined 11/27/2003 Comments 1171

Wow, I didn't even get my RH-8 box upgraded to 9 and it is already abandoned. Strange behaviour for the community. Typical for just about every commercial business but not OS.

My desktop is already on Fedora after Mandrake abandoned ver 8 and I didn't like ver 9. Fedora is o.k. but I'm not putting it up as a public server.

However, a good sys admin that doesn't have the $$ to buy into a commercial package will keep their box updated from raw source code and step away from pre-built version specific binaries.

I still have a PII-500 running what was originally RH5.2 on a P-250 . I never did a full upgrade but gradually brought it up to RH 6.2 and when that went dorment I went to full raw source code. The kernel, libraries, and all the apps are compiled from raw source and as up to date as anything out there. It still runs great and has uptimes measured in years...

Re: End of Life for Red Hat 9.0

dionysos Published 02/17/2005 21:00 Updated 02/17/2005 21:02 Just popping in Joined 02/17/2005 Comments 8

well you can try centOS its based on redhat :)
(the website is based in XOOPS if you haven't noticed ;))
http://www.centos.org

EOL Red Hat 9.0 --> centOS +Opinions wanted

upsadaz Published 06/09/2005 20:14 Friend of XOOPS Joined 02/26/2004 Comments 174

I noticed. I was tickled pink that XOOPS was used for their site.

Didn't some of the XOOPS folks get involved in the development of centOS? CBlue maybe? I think I remember reading something like that on this forum. I like what I see so far.

I am building a hosting server (primarily for XOOPS sites) and am considering using CentOS. I would like to know what you all think of this idea. Has any one used centOS as a web hosting server? If so what do you think? Does cPanel and Fantastico do well on this OS?

Any comments, ideas or opinions welcome.

Re: EOL Red Hat 9.0 --> centOS +Opinions wanted

Lance_ Published 06/09/2005 20:17 Home away from home Joined 01/12/2004 Comments 983

CentOS on a dedicated server from Surpasshosting.

Everything from CPanel and fantastico work fine.

80% of my sites are XOOPS on it. Well there are only 10 so far.

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