[CentOS] Fedora Legacy shutting down

Wed Jan 10 04:38:20 UTC 2007
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On 1/9/07, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
> On Sunday 07 January 2007 11:19, chrism at imntv.com wrote:
> > Just curious about why you'd choose to do that rather than upgrade to
> > the latest 3.x or 4.x release.  Do you have some canned binaries that
> > won't run on a more recent vintage system even with the compatibility libs?
>
> FWIW, I have a few canned binaries in use at one site that require two really
> archaic libs.  One is (wait for it) libc5-based.  Yes, libc-5.3.12, last
> libc5 on RH.  Latest libc5 compat was distributed with RHL6.2.  The other is
> linked against glibc 2.0; it is multithreaded and does not work with glibc
> 2.2 (we have tried; it doesn't work) but it will work with glibc 2.1.
>
> The first app was originally released for Red Hat Linux 4.x (not RHEL4; we
> have come full circle on versions, no?), and the second was released for RHL
> 5.  The CentOS 2.1 VM (VMware server is great for running legacy stuff on
> modern hardware that isn't supportable by the old OS) replaces the really old
> RHL 4.2 PentiumPro 200 server and the old but not quite so old Mandrake 5.3
> K6-2 500 server (back when Mandrake was RHL+KDE in effect).
>
> It is a case of 'the app works and we ain't paying for an upgrade we don't
> need when the app cost x thousand dollars!'  Can't blame them at all; the app
> does work and works well, both pieces.  Has for nearly ten years now, with
> very little downtime.  Serves the need (it's a fairly specialized broadcast
> radio application written on AOLserver 2.x and tied to some odd backend
> stuff).
>
> But have you tried installing RHL 4.2 lately on anything more modern than a
> Pentium II?  Or RHL 5.2 (Mandrake 5.3) on anything more modern than a P3?
> VMware server solves the problem very nicely.

Yep. I use it for even DOS stuff

[Hi Lamar.. I was just thinking about the Pisgah ARI this weekend..
wondering how it was going..]


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