Red Hat"s retail Linux line, Red Hat Linux 9, is at the end of its line. The Raleigh, N.C.-based Linux vendor is ending support on its final version on April 30th. Red Hat made the original announcement at the end of last year. In January, it ended support for its earlier legacy versions, leaving Red Hat 9 as the most recent version of the now defunct product line -- until now. Red Hat is hoping Red Hat 9 customers will now migrate to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) line.
"When we first announced the program, we had a big up tick then. But since then, it"s been very steady," Red Hat spokesperson Leigh Day told internetnews.com. "We"ve had a pretty good success rate with people moving over," she added. Red Hat has urged businesses that require support and longer release cycles to migrate to RHEL; for those that don"t need as much support, there is the community-based Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is now in the final testing stages of its Fedora Core 2 release, after it released test 3 this week.