Lineox newsletter 2 August 2. 2004
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Contents

Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.011 available for free download
Free downloads policy statement
 Free updates download policy
Red Hat 7.x updates service phasing out
What's next?


Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.011 available for free download
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Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.011 has been made available
for free download. It contains all updates up to Update 2. Update 2 was
the second quarterly update for RHEL 3.0. Quarterly updates contain a
rather large set of updated packages, typically tens of packages.
Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.011 disk images were made and 
originally released as paid download May 17. 2004.


Free downloads policy statement
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Red Hat has promised to make for 2.5 years quarterly updates for RHEL
3.0. They contain bug fixes and additional hardware support. Security
fixes are the only errata released independent of the Updates.
Lineox will offer Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.x based on
these as free downloads when the next version is released. So the free
Always Current downloads will be 3 to 6 months old.


Free updates download policy

Lineox currently offers updates for free, but to track the use, Lineox
requires free subscription for accessing them. The free period ends
Oct. 22. 2004. After that the updates will be offered as free
downloads one month after their original release.

Lineox will notify current updates subscribers again about the ending
of the free period approximately one month before it ends.


Red Hat 7.x updates service phasing out
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Red Hat 7.x updates service wil be discontinued at the latest Oct. 22.
2004, but it will continue at least to the end of August.


What's next?
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Lineox has plans to make variations of our main product now that we
have the product line and services otherwise ready and running at an
acceptable level.

The obvious one is 64 bit version for AMD processors. Itanium is not
as popular and we will leave that for a later time. Expect x86-64
version of Lineox Enterprise Linux around the end of this month.

A more ambitious one is a version with enhanced installation
environment, which allows the person doing the installation to read
the HTML formatted installation manual during the installation and
change the size of the hard drive partitions with a graphical program.
We can't make any promises about the time table of this product at
this stage. 



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