[huskerlug] Re: Advice -- RedHat version support(No free lunch!)

        SuSE does the same thing.  You might find sites where people keep
up the packages, even on the older versions.   Another thing is to 
learn how to compile source packages so they will run on older distros.
        Packages from older FreeBSDs run on the latest ones.  When they
finally go from the 4x to 5x series, though, I'm not quite sure how 
that is going to work.  Upgrading from 4.2 to 4.8 of FreeBSD did NOT 
work well for me, well better to say it didn't work though the 
packages from 42 worked on 4.8.
        So, you finally ran into one of the facts of life on Linux.  I sure 
would like to hear how well people are able to keep older versions of  
Linux plugging away.   I'm very curious.   ---Jim



On Friday 26 September 2003 10:20, you wrote:
> I've got a couple of production machines currently running
> RedHat 7.x series. I see that RedHat will be dropping support
> at the end of December of this year. I will have opportunities
> to upgrade the machines soon. I was considering installing the
> latest version of RedHat (9), but I see that they are dropping
> support for that on April 30, 2004. I don't want to have to
> do another re-install in a few months! I am seriously looking
> at installing a different distro like Debian or something where
> the support seems more continuous (I also use Debian on other
> machines). Can any of the RedHat experts give advice on what a
> RedHat user is supposed to do to avoid having to reinstall
> so often?
>
> -Rog
>
>
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