Red Hat tells customers, 'No more freebies!". In an email to Red Hat Network customers, the company has announced today that it "...will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December 31, 2003," that "Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004," and that "Red Hat does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line." This should not come as a surprise to NewsForge regulars who saw this story on October 23, but less-prepared Red Hat users seem shocked by the idea. [NewsForge]

Looks like it's Fedora for freebies.  While this is most certainly going to cause some consternation in some quarters, I se it as a good move for Redhat.  While plenty of folks have used free Redhat, it is the paying customers who pay the bills.  And increasingly those customers are good-sized compaines willing to pay for the software they use in return for good support and quality assurance.

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Feeds for antivirus info are available from:

• Symantec - JavaScript snippet
• Sophos - RSS1.0, code-based snippet
• Trend - code-based snippet

These are really handy, but it would certainly be better if they were all in a RSS feed for aggregator consumption.  Nonetheless, you can use the code snippets to create a single advisory page for folks who are using different vendor software.

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