Hi folks,
Are there users of RH5.0 out there?
I am asking this, as I have some systems running RH5.0 (2.0.36) since ages. Of course, I had upgraded sendmail,apache, PHP etc over these years on these boxes, and they are serving me well since their inception. IOW, *they do what they are supposed to do*, leaving nothing much to whine about.
They mostly function as mailservers.
I dont blame entirely the retro-ness(?) on my laziness, but mostly on the principle "Dont fix it if it is not broken." I saw nothing broke, also my requirement is being met by these machines.
However, any new system I build goes with "somewhat decently" recent versions of Linux [ie, RH7.0 (2.2.16-22) or 7.2, even though RH 8.0 is the current cool and hype thing.]
I would like to know how you ladies and gentlemen out here treat the versions (if you guys have any) that power my said horses.
I suppose one prime plus point of Linux is that it likes older hardware as well.
How do we treat the older kernels? Tear 'em down?
Thanks for your time and patience in advance,
Anu Mathew
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Anu Mathew wrote:
I am asking this, as I have some systems running RH5.0 (2.0.36) since ages. Of course, I had upgraded sendmail,apache, PHP etc over these years on these boxes, and they are serving me well since their inception. IOW, *they do what they are supposed to do*, leaving nothing much to whine about.
If u have upgraded these things to the latest versions , then IMO ur installation is not deemed to be called RH5.0
if you also upgrade the kernel you can safely assume that ur installation is comparable with RH8.0
pls correct me if i'm wrong
However, any new system I build goes with "somewhat decently" recent versions of Linux [ie, RH7.0 (2.2.16-22) or 7.2, even though RH 8.0 is the current cool and hype thing.]
Sadly, i'm too observing ppl trying to have the latest and the greatest
How do we treat the older kernels? Tear 'em down?
I guess older Kernels should be replaced by (stable) newer ones The reason being they are (presumably) stabler, support more hardware and filesystems
I guess older Kernels did not support ext3 and Reiserfs Newer ones do
IMHO having latest and greatest ( both Hardware and Software ) is finally matter of ur convenience and ( more ) of ur attitude
Oh, and people still use DOS if it gets their job done.
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
if you also upgrade the kernel you can safely assume that ur installation is comparable with RH8.0
upgrading the kernel also requires upgrading modutils, binutils, glibc, gcc and several other packages. eventually you notice that little remains of the original distro - probably vim and emacs would still work.
How do we treat the older kernels? Tear 'em down?
No, stable versions of older kernels are just that - stable. FWIW, 2.0 and 2.2 are still being maintained. You can download 2.0.39 (soon coming out with 2.0.40) and 2.2.23 (going on 24) from kernel.org.
I guess older Kernels should be replaced by (stable) newer ones The reason being they are (presumably) stabler, support more hardware and filesystems
why would you want to support newer hardware that you don't have? if the machine's hardware hasn't changed, and the kernel supported it 5 years ago, it isn't going to stop supporting it now. OTOH, there have been reports of newer kernels not fully supporting older hardware (in particular some buggy BIOSes) that older kernels did.
IMO, stick with what you have if it works for you. Apply security patches, and that's it.
Philip
Well, well-said. Have you imagined an AMD 80386 in the shoes of a small netowork firewall?
It runs Slackware and sometimes RH 5.0. But then it isn't the it ain't broke don't fix it attitude here. It is the 386 works best with RH5.0 attitude (also a bit of cost-effectiveness)
Regards,
Amol Hatwar. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anu Mathew" AnuMathew@soft-linkinc.com To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 4:31 AM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] *Older* versions of Linux...
Hi folks,
Are there users of RH5.0 out there?
I am asking this, as I have some systems running RH5.0 (2.0.36) since ages. Of course, I had upgraded sendmail,apache, PHP etc over these years on these boxes, and they are serving me well since their inception. IOW, *they do what they are supposed to do*, leaving nothing much to whine about.
They mostly function as mailservers.
I dont blame entirely the retro-ness(?) on my laziness, but mostly on the principle "Dont fix it if it is not broken." I saw nothing broke, also my requirement is being met by these machines.
However, any new system I build goes with "somewhat decently" recent versions of Linux [ie, RH7.0 (2.2.16-22) or 7.2, even though RH 8.0 is the current cool and hype thing.]
I would like to know how you ladies and gentlemen out here treat the versions (if you guys have any) that power my said horses.
I suppose one prime plus point of Linux is that it likes older hardware as well.
How do we treat the older kernels? Tear 'em down?
Thanks for your time and patience in advance,
Anu Mathew
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