At 18:36 10/26/2003, Justin Banks wrote:
Peter B. West wrote > So what's your opinion of RH9, both for commercial and personal use. I > upgraded my 7.3 personal systems to 9 [...] and I have > never had so many things break on an upgrade before.
I'll chime in here, just because I feel strongly about this. RH9 broke so many things it was a disgrace.
For the sake of counterpoint and playing devil's advocate, I have 3 workstations, 2 notebooks, and about 10 servers on RH9. All were clean installs, not upgrades. A variety of software is run, all installed using RPM and obtained either from Red Hat, FreshRPMS, Fedora Project, or Freshmeat/Sourceforge. Not one single machine has given me a single minute's trouble since they were installed and put online (pretty much right after 9 came out).
I'm happily running my home and my small webhosting business as well as several firewall/gateway/netserver boxen on 9, and making money off them. I also do a fair bit of Q&A for friends who run Red Hat, and so far none of them have complained about anything wrong either. Sorry you two had problems (and I am aware that yes, there were some problems with 9) but, your mileage may vary!
One of mine was an upgrade, one a clean install, onto which I ported much that I had accumulated over the years. I have always had trouble wit upgrades, because so much of what I have customized is either blown away, or left intact but semi- or non-workable. I always allowed a day after an upgrade to get things back to normal. 9 seriously broke backward compatibility, and I am still finding things that don't work the same way months later. Not a problem for new users, but critical for upgraders. There was nothing that I saw in the installation procedures that pointed me to warnings about likely problems in upgrade situations, and the workarounds.
This list is the best resource I have found to date.
Peter -- Peter B. West <http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/resume.html>
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