Fred Whipple wrote:
Linux improves so fast, personally I could not stand it to be using the OS from 5 years ago. If it comes to that to run some legacy application, I'll set up a Virtual Machine to run just that application.
I agree, and we tend not to run systems longer than 2 years without an upgrade. However there's nothing cozier than a nice, warm, security blanket! ;-) It's the *forced* upgrades that bother me. We've had the Red Hat rug pulled out from under us and this is causing me some pain...
I still have machines running RedHat 6.0. It relies on a custom kernel patch for a special ISA card. Only having one card it makes it hard to test an upgrade so firewalls up and it is still running.
We are using CentOS-2 (no surprise) on most of our servers. This allowed us to upgrade from RedHat 7.2 without having to retest all out applications. I have no plans to upgrade anything in the next 12 months. We still have 4 years of security patches promised so I am not rushing to upgrade. Perhaps once CentOS-4 is out I will look at that for any new servers.
John.
-Fred
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