RedHat Linux Y2K compliancy

["Atul Chitnis" <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(sigh) another case of someone not having checked the archives, and yet
another FAQ being answered for the nth time.

Here is RedHat's Y2K statement.

"Red Hat Linux has been designed and tested from the beginning to work for
our customers in the Year 2000 and beyond. We have tested the system
utilities and kernel of Red Hat Linux versions 4.1 and greater, and have
found them to be Year 2000 compliant, meaning that they will not produce
errors in date data related to the year change from December 31, 1999 to
January 1, 2000. Customers who use versions of Red Hat Linux prior to
version 4.1 may upgrade to more recent and up-to-date versions at no charge,
by downloading a new version from Red Hat's ftp site at ftp.redhat.com or
from one of many mirror sites around the world.
Red Hat Linux, as an operating system, is only one layer of many in a
functioning computer system. Some applications written to work with Red Hat
Linux may not be Year 2000 compliant, even though the operating system
itself is. Therefore, we encourage our customers to evaluate their hardware,
software applications, and other computer products carefully. "

In short - RHL is certified as Y2K compliant, but apps you may install from
elsewhere need not necessarily be.

This means that a straight install of RHL will give you a Y2K compliant
system, but installing some app from the net or anywhere else could break
that.

And if you break it by installing a non-Y2K compliant app, you get to keep
both pieces. ;-)

For more info, please do the done thing - check RedHat's website for
information, which is very much there, prominently displayed at
http://www.redhat.com/corp/legal_statement.html

Atul



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