On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 07:44, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> So it is a supported OS. Your subject line implied that it is no >> longer receiving [security] updates. > > That's case for some of the companies I encounter. > Not for the places where I am in charge. >
I see. > According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RHEL > RHEL 3 was end-of-life half a year ago. Unless you have the extended support. > No, it's standard (un-)support. It's not my box. > There are at least two sides of this coin: > One of them is that if you stick to the vendor supported packages (e.g. MySQL) > then as time goes by you will be more and more limited to put new applications > on your server as they require newer versions of those other packages. > > The other one is that every upgrade has its risks. What if the new version > of MySQL (or any other dependency your applications have) made some > changes that break your application? The longer you wait with the upgrade > the bigger these differences can be. The higher the risk for the upgrade. > Well stated. It's often not an easy decision. > Of course if you put Joomla (for example) that does not come with your > distribution > on your server then you already put some non-vendor package there. > Why not then replace the MySQL with one that does not come from your OS > vendor? > Where do you draw the line between > "This thing I can install only from my OS vendor" > and > "This thing I can install from elsewhere. (e.g. source, binary from > the developer, etc.)" > Of course I always make an effort to use vendor-supplied software when available. Things that the vendor does not supply, or only support an older version, I deal with on a case by case basis. Often there will be conflicting interests. In this case I am considering just using an MySQL instance on a different host in the same rack. MySQL makes this very easy, but not all software has it this easy. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il