Progeny to Offer Red Hat 9 Support

With little fanfare, Red Hat Linux 9 is nearing its end of life. Red Hat Inc. is encouraging its business customers to move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is asking its Linux-enthusiast customers to try the Fedora Project. But Progeny Linux Systems Inc. has another suggestion for these customers: Continue using Red Hat 9 with support from Progeny Transition Service (PTS). On April 30, Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat will stop producing new security, bugfix or enhancement updates for this well-known Linux distribution. On May 1, Progeny is set to launch its follow-on program, to be announced Wednesday. The program is an add-on to Indianapolis, Ind.-based Progeny's existing PTS support lines for Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0. Support for all of these lines will continue through the end of 2005.

Progeny, an independent provider of Linux-platform technology founded by Debian Linux creator Ian Murdock, is known primarily for customizing Linux distributions for businesses. The company's Red Hat support aims to assist users who still rely on legacy versions of Red Hat Linux and aren't ready to migrate to another Linux platform.

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