[Bio-Linux] Red Hat Linux 9.0 EOL (End of Life)

[Dan Swan]

Dear All,

As some of you may be aware Red Hat withdraws support for Red Hat Linux 
9.0 (the base OS of Bio-Linux) on April 30th 2004.

This has left a question of how Bio-Linux machines will be updated with 
security updates, bug fixes etc. after this date and before the release 
of Bio-Linux 4.0 in October.

To reassure everyone that their machines will not suddenly go out of 
date, when the EOL occurs I will be sending out an update over the list.

This update will replace your /etc/yum.conf file (Yum is the system that 
updates your machines).  The yum.conf will point to the "Fedora Legacy 
Project", which is going to support Red Hat 9.0 for security and 
bugfixes for at least 1.5 years.

For more information on the Fedora Legacy Project please see their 
website at:

http://www.fedoralegacy.org/

Please note that if you are still on Bio-Linux 2.0 or 2.1 as a 
researcher outside the NERC EG community you are not currently getting 
security updates, and if you have no plans to upgrade to Bio-Linux 3.0 
then you might wish to install Yum and use the Fedora Legacy Project to 
keep your machines up to date.  If you are interested in learning how to 
do this please get in touch.

Dan
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