Well, 7.2 is good, but not so great. A lot of updates. I am hopping that redhat 7.3, which, I hope, will be out next week, will be rock steady. I am wondering what Redhat is doing with the alpha release. The last release for an alpha is the 7.1. Would be great to see a release in the coming future for the alpha platform, after the release of 7.3. I am sure that RedHat will come out with a 7.3 or they'll come out with the 8.0 in a week or so. But if it will be a 8.0 it will be one of the most steady x.0 release. As I've said in an earlier mail, from 8.0 we should expect a buggy release with new technologies inside... who knows, maybe support for the 2.5.x kernel. Curently, a 5.2 on an alpha is doing a great job, but it's very old. -- Spooky Tony Nugent wrote: >On Tue Apr 30 2002 at 17:33, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > > > >>>let's take the last buggy (7.0) IMHO >>>and the 7.2 has a lot of updates, not necesarly >>>remote root bugs >>> >>> >>7.0 was rather horrifying. Having to patch glibc soon >>after release was not very convincing, IMHO. I could >>not really recall 7.1 - nothing exceptional - but 7.2 >>is rather solid, everything considered. 7.3 promises >>to be a repeat of 4.2/5.2 :) >> >> > >I totally agree about 7.0 (ouch!), 7.1 was ok (it included the 2.4.x >kernel), 7.2 so far has been great. > >But lots of updates. And updates to updates. It is a real >management problem (and I'm sure a headache for redhat). I guess >its the nature of the beast, I'd much rather have bugfixes available >asap, especially for security problems. > >But my real reason for joining into this conversation is to give >some recognition to redhat 6.2 -- arguably their best release so >far, especially as a reliable server platform. > >Once it is patched with all its (essential!) updates (under 300Mb >for all the binary rpms), it has proven to be a very solid and >stable platform. I know of many rh6.2 (server) boxes that just >won't fall down (unless deliberately/accidently shut down), and I >can't see any point in upgrading a box when it is doing its job so >well. I recently rebooted one busy 6.2 box that had an uptime of >473 days (taken down only for more disk/ram and a timely kernel >upgrade). > >I hope bugfix/security support for rh6.2 doesn't fall off the end of >the list as new releases appear. 6.2 is still out there and doing a >very fine job. It deserves ongoing support (although I recognise >that eventually all good things come to an end :) > >As for the next release, it will happen when it happens. If it >builds and improves on 7.2, then I'm looking forward to it. >Meanwhile I can wait, 7.2 is currently doing a very fine job as my >workstation :) > >Cheers >Tony > > _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
