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

I use Gentoo to keep up with new packages.  You can upgrade any package you 
want, it has the cutting edge that you'll get from compiling from source, and 
no risk of a vendor deciding you need a fresh install.  One bootstrap into 
Gentoo, and you're good forever (or until you break something).  While it 
sometimes takes a while (or a real long while, I'm upgrading to kde-3.1.4 
right now . . .) to compile a package, I think that it is more than worth it 
for the advantages you get.
On Friday 26 September 2003 11:37 am, you wrote:
>       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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