On Tuesday 28 January 2003 09:36, Tommy McNeely wrote: > Actually... Last weekend I just re-installed a server that was running > 7.0 still... it was doing what it needed to do, but the hard drive was > going bad, so we re-installed before we lost the data... I think LOTS of > people who actually run "production" servers (not desktops) however > small they may be (233MHz/128M), still need full support for "the last > two FULL releases" .. in this case 7.* and 8.* ... up2date SHOULD be > able to update all packages and effectively make a 7.x box be 7.3 ... > so that would effectively reduce the number of distros to 2... right? > 7.x is probably a bad example since there was a major kernel version > change in a "point" release... but I think better release number > management would have fixed that... by the way.. who or what determines > whether it will be a 7.4 or a 8.0 ?? most often, binary compatability. Because of the glibc changes between 7.3 and 8.0, 8.0 binaries aren't compatible with 7.3. Plus there were lots of other changes that needed to be made to break free from the 7.x line, such as the move to iptables, the new XFree86, the new Gnome, the new ..... -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE For Web Services and Linux Consulting, Visit --> j2Solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
