[cobalt-security] Not great news for Cobalt Users

["Gavin Nelmes-Crocker" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the broadcast but I feel it is important for people to start
thinking what they will do in the future.  I know some of this has started
to be talked about with the Qbalt project and talk recently of an
independent group setting up a patching network.

This just arrived from Red Hat

<snip>
 Sent: 02 April 2003 17:48
To: redhat-watch-list@xxxxxxxxxx; redhat-announce-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: End of Life: Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7


In accordance with our errata support policy the Red Hat Linux 6.2 and
Red Hat Linux 7 distributions have now reached their end-of-life for
errata maintenance.  This means that we will no longer be producing
security, bugfix, or enhancement updates for these products.
</snip>

As most of the Cobalt product line is based on Red Hat 6.2
(RaQ3,4,XTR,Qube3) this is serious unless anyone else has a different
hopefully better view or solution.

Regards

Gavin