With all the issues with Redhat Enterprise 3 and the problems of having to do all the server and file migration if I wanted to upgrade to RH Ent 3 from RH 9, I have decided to stick with RH 9 till the end.

But since it is going to EOL pretty soon, it is decision time now. Should I go with the $5/mth Progeny service or the free Fedora Legacy update service ? Money here is not the issue since it is just $5 that we are talking about here.

Which service is faster at coming up with patches and which would be easier to install. Of course the most important thing would be the alert information ? I am sure that there are some RH 7.x and RH 8 machines here, which did you pick and what is your opinion on the update services ?

Thanks.. haa haa, hate to have to make all these decisions..

I have progeny for a RH8 server. It worked ok, but I had one very bad problem. When the first post-RH security issue came out, progeny put up a kernel to fix the security issue, and of course I installed it & rebooted.

My main application starts life with a huge mysql query (5-way join across tables with several million rows, final result set has about a million rows). This query went from about 45 seconds on RH kernel to about 10 minutes on progeny kernel!!! Nothing else changed on my system, so something on the kernel was compiled differently. Then, twice in the two weeks of running the progeny kernel, a process on the system got stuck in "uninterruptible_sleep_on" mode permanently. Anything that tried to touch that process (which included ps, kill, etc.) would freeze unkillably, so I would end up with ever-growing groups of unkillable processes.

Needless to say, I went back to the unpatched RH8 kernel. Tonight I'm just finishing up my migration to RHEL3 on matrix, and I'm glad I don't have to deal with that any more. :-)

Thanks for the information.. I really appreciate that.

Not really my area...I'm pretty much a proud Microsoft guy...but

I switched from RH9 to Fedora on my dual boots at home, and man was iwrong about Fedora (Core 1). It rocks. RH9 was always stale and up2date was a pain with a crappy interface. Fedora and quick web read about using apt-get and then found the synaptic gui. Totally cool. I was nice and current without the great RPM hunt and dependency gotchas. Install took 30 minutes tops and was as easy as an XP install..and I'm biased!

I realize you can't use fedora with control panels and such...and that it's not a good server OS because of the very fast release cycle...but man o man I'm finally having fun in linux instead of fighting Redhat "quirks". They sure seem to be dropping the ball on RHEL. Seems like a lot of problems and this is the improvement over free? Whatever.

Sorry to jump in - I had to share!

Fedora Core != Fedora-Legacy

Of course it's not.
I was just jumping in and sharing the joy I had with FC1 and apt. Off topic, yes...but the post had the word Fedora in it!

On a diff note - you'd think this question would have had more replies by now. I'm kinda curious about the Fedora legacy support myself. "Forced" upgrades aren't my thing, so I hope it's not like that in a year or so.

How will these update services be done? Will they be done through up2date or some other means? Do you have links to the services?