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

        I wouldn't mind having a copy of 6.4 for that reason, I think it's the
first one that SuSE put out that would support Reiser.  It's almost as good as
a UPS, though if you work at it you can mess up ReiserFS.
        What I read RedHat still doesn't want to use it and prefers EXT3
because of it's backward compatibilty with EXT2.  ---Jim



On Saturday 27 September 2003 01:00, you wrote:
> 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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