Fred Whipple wrote:
>>Linux improves so fast, personally I could not stand it to be using the
>>OS from 5 years ago. If it comes to that to run some legacy
>>application, I'll set up a Virtual Machine to run just that application.
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> I agree, and we tend not to run systems longer than 2 years without an
> upgrade. However there's nothing cozier than a nice, warm, security
> blanket! ;-) It's the *forced* upgrades that bother me. We've had
> the Red Hat rug pulled out from under us and this is causing me some
> pain...
I still have machines running RedHat 6.0. It relies on a custom kernel
patch for a special ISA card. Only having one card it makes it hard to
test an upgrade so firewalls up and it is still running.
We are using CentOS-2 (no surprise) on most of our servers. This
allowed us to upgrade from RedHat 7.2 without having to retest all out
applications. I have no plans to upgrade anything in the next 12
months. We still have 4 years of security patches promised so I am not
rushing to upgrade. Perhaps once CentOS-4 is out I will look at that
for any new servers.
John.
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> -Fred
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John Newbigin
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Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
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