Dear Red Hat Linux User...

[marcovaleriof]

hi,
two days ago I recieved this e-mail from redhat
my old preferred distro of linux is diyng..

Code:

Dear Red Hat Linux user,

We are approaching the published end of life date for errata support
for our final Red Hat Linux distribution.  We'd like to remind you of
this date and the options available to you for migrating your Red Hat
Linux implementations: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Fedora Project.

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
we will not be producing new security, bugfix, or enhancement updates
for this product.

There are a variety of options available for migration.  Red Hat
offers Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as the new Fedora Project. 
Our Red Hat Linux Migration Resource Center can help you find the Red
Hat solution best suited for your needs:

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

The errata support policy, as well as our current errata and
advisories, are available from:

http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/

--the Red Hat Network Team

Account Information:
  Your RHN login:         marco_valerio
  Your RHN email address: marcovaleriof@lycos.it

[CARTMAN]

Upgrade to http://fedora.redhat.com/ ?

[marcovaleriof]

Quote:

Originally posted by CARTMAN@May 4 2004, 08:35 AM
Upgrade to http://fedora.redhat.com/  ?

no, I'm switching to gentoo, now

I think is more stable, furthermore you don't have to use rpms, can be optimized
for specific processor type (CHOST; CFLAGS) and for users'needs (USE)
E.g.: the "-gnome" flag tells emerge system non to compile gnome support in application that have it

from make.conf: (general configuration for emerge system)

Code:

CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"

CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse2  -mmmx -m128bit-long-double -fprefetch-loop-arrays"

USE="dvd cdrw divx -doc X gtk -gnome -alsa kde qt mmx r128 rage128 ati -samba it-IT gtk2 cups LINGUAS=it tiff gif
jpeg oggvobis -dvdrw -mysql"

last, but not least, is avaible directly from the internet! no more cd!
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