Quoting Conor Daly (conor.daly_ilug at cod.homelinux.org):
> How definately? My understanding is that RHEL versions have a 7-year
> support/life cycle and that RHEL 3 is only 2 or 3 years into that at
> this point. Is there something I should know???
Hmm. RHEL3 was released 2003-10-22. My notes say that they've been
promising a 5-year support life, which would take them to 2008.
You'll definitely get security-fix RPMs from RHN, which might be good
enough and timely enough to keep Internet-facing systems safe. (That'll
strain their maintenance resources a bit, since they'll be supporting
_three_ enterprise releases simultaneously, at that point.)
What you'll probably not be getting much longer, I think, are update
releases -- which would mostly be a problem to those seeking to install
onto newer hardware. Update 6 might just have been the last. My
impression may be wrong, of course.
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