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

On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:14 am, you wrote:
> 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!

=46or that production installation I used ReiserFS, the=20
software equilivent of an UPS.   I use ReiserFS on all my=20
Linux installations.


>       Well, so far my WordPerfect 8 is working very well on=20
> 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. =3D20 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.=20
> > > When they finally go from the 4x to 5x series, though,
> > > I'm not quite sure how that is going to work.=20
> > > 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. =20
> > > ---Jim
> >
> > The need to upgrade depends on what the box is being
> > used=3D20 for.  I had the 6.4 version of SuSE installed on
> > a BBS=3D20 system at work.  It ran for over 30 months
> > without a patch=3D20 or upgrade (or crash!)  because it
> > was doing exactly what we=3D20 wanted to do with it.  We
> > only shut it down because we=3D20 outsourced the task it
> > was doing.
> >
> > I ran into this problem during the conversion from
> > shlibs to=3D20 LibC6.  Both my Applix Office Suite and my
> > WordPerfect WP =3D20 stopped working after that upgrade.=20
> > I could have installed=3D20 the shlibs but I decided to go
> > forward with the new=3D20 libraries and use apps which
> > used them.
> >
> > Right now I am at another crossroads.   Do I upgrade to
> > MDK=3D20 9.2 or stay with MDK 9.1.   I see no compelling
> > reason to=3D20 upgrade so unless some reason really pops
> > out at me I will=3D20 stay with 9.1 for another 6 months.=20
> > I may not upgrade until=3D20 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
> >
> > =3D2D=3D20
> > Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic
> > by=3D20 professionals
> > GreyGeek
> >
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