On August 16, 2015, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > How good is it to move back to an older version of Linux for a > Little bit? I'm thinking of installing lenny. Because it no longer gets security updates, I wouldn't recommend older than Debian Stable (currently that's Jessie, but whatever the current flavor of that happens to be at the time you install) unless you plan for the machine to be off-line only, which would severely limit its usefulness. You might be able to get by with one version before Stable, which would be Wheezy. You can get "older" releases by using RHEL or CentOS which usually tracks an even older and more stable system by really only giving security updates. But that said, I've found that it is more trouble than it's worth. Also, running older systems makes it harder to get modern packages/updates. > I'm planning to learn a Little basics. programming, compiling new > kernels and such things. Welcome to the club. It's a lot of fun! -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list