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

        Like the older versions of Windows --except Linux works/worked much
better!--6.4 was smaller and faster than later versions.  If you had it on a 
very good UPS, never messed with rebooting then it should have worked just
great!
        Well, so far my WordPerfect 8 is working very well on  SuSE 7.3,
which I probably won't be in a rush to upgrade, though I have went from 6.3, 
to 7.3, and going to 8.3 would be a natural, but SuSE has made some changes
such as getting rid of Yast1, procinfo, and locate, which I find useful. I'll 
seriously play around with FreeBSD on one computer, just to really ring it 
out.  It's harder to set up than the modern Linux distros, but one needs a 
little challenge in one's life???
        So, plugging away with SuSE 7.3 is one of the few certainties that I
have.  ---Jim

On Friday 26 September 2003 18:35, you wrote:
> 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. =20
> > 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
>
> The need to upgrade depends on what the box is being used=20
> for.  I had the 6.4 version of SuSE installed on a BBS=20
> system at work.  It ran for over 30 months without a patch=20
> or upgrade (or crash!)  because it was doing exactly what we=20
> wanted to do with it.  We only shut it down because we=20
> outsourced the task it was doing.
>
> I ran into this problem during the conversion from shlibs to=20
> LibC6.  Both my Applix Office Suite and my WordPerfect WP =20
> stopped working after that upgrade.  I could have installed=20
> the shlibs but I decided to go forward with the new=20
> libraries and use apps which used them.
>
> Right now I am at another crossroads.   Do I upgrade to MDK=20
> 9.2 or stay with MDK 9.1.   I see no compelling reason to=20
> upgrade so unless some reason really pops out at me I will=20
> stay with 9.1 for another 6 months.  I may not upgrade until=20
> the 2.6 kernel reaches the second release.
>
> > 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
>
> =2D=20
> Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by=20
> professionals
> GreyGeek
>
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