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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:21:39 +1000 (EST)
From: Jason Andrade To: David Beveridge Cc: Noel Butler, Troy Davis, Aussie-Isp Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210081910040.1278-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <008301c26ea6$1a8cd960$034aa8c0@nass3> Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] New Server |
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On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, David Beveridge wrote: > > > 3. Red Hat 8 seems to be much better for desktop use, Would it also be > > > better as a server than say Red hat 7.3 > > > > Never ever ever ever ever use RH version X.0 on production boxes, it's > > not as bad but still avoid if you can X.1, if you can wait for X.2, or in > > the latest collection 7.3 use it. > > X.0 is always a beta with bugs, X.1 most the bugs are ironed out, but > still > > a few, and X.2 is generally accepted as production, RH themselves used > > to advise people never to use X.0 in production situations. > > > Not so, RedHat 7.0 was the last stable release of the 2.2 kernel and > we have several of these in production. i agree - to a point. we used RH7.0 and it worked pretty well for 6+ months without any downtime. of course we were patching quite frequently but it was still seamless (went through 4 glibc updates on the fly..) which was extremely nice. > RH7.1 on the other hand was the first release to have the new 2.4 kernel, > this is hardly a minor upgrade. RH7.2 is a stable reason and 7.3 is just > a few security fixes and version upgrades. i've just been testing RH8.0 out. it has a few issues for us, the main ones being that mysql doesn't seem to compile and run properly and that the UTF stuff is quite broken which manifests itself unpleasantly in a number of areas. it is quite a radical leap since it is now using gcc 3.2, a new glibc and a few other things. i have heard quite a few rave reviews of RH8's desktop, but from a server perspective, we're going with 7.3 it looks like. i'm actually quite sad about that because it looks quite nice moving forward with it if you had good change control - but the mysql stuff kind of forces that. regards, -jason ---- email "unsubscribe aussie-isp" to m a j o r d o m o @ a u s s i e . n e t to be removed. |
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