Re: [LUG] RedHat 9.0

[Jon Still <jon-pop@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

So, the 50 million quid question is:  Which release should we be using 
for a production server?

I'm planning at some point a rebuild of a server - previously I'd been 
considering 7.3 as it's known to be pretty stable.  However, this is 
now slipping behind from 'current' and RedHat's change of heart 
regarding support for 'old' releases has made a lot of people nervous 
about staying with old versions.

I think in an ideal world it'd be great to do a complete rebuild of a 
redhat distro - going through each RPM and rebuilding it with the very 
latest version, having checked exactly what extra crud RH have added 
(HOW many kernel patches do they add?).  Of course this would take ages 
and I have no time as it is, but it'd be useful to do and would allow 
you to forget about RH's official support entirely.

Jon.

On Tuesday, Mar 25, 2003, at 12:40 Europe/London, Kai Hendry wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:13:26 -0000, John Horne wrote:
> > Interesting to say the least that they have gone from 8.0 to 9.0! My 
> > new
>
> Binary incompatibility with the new gcc. Hence the version jump.
>
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