Ravindra Jaju wrote:
> I wish to make a point here. It's not the release of the distro which
> bothers me, but the kernel. 5.x series has 2.0.x series of the kernel,
> which is _slow_ (comparatively).
> Secondly, the statement "if it works, don't disturb it" is fine when you
> actually know when you are disturbing the system. But you never do that
> intentionally. You always are on the look out for something better in
> terms of performance.
I stick to my statement here. I run a mail server that has been running
perfectly well on RH6 for a few months now. I'd be a complete idiot to
go install RH 6.1 on it just because it's newer. Reason? Red Hat's
package testing is nowhere as good as it's legendarily supposed to be.
I downloaded an update to RH6's samba package from updates.redhat.com,
rebuilt (I always get SRPMs these days) and installed it. The package
conveniently overwrote my smb.conf file and then notified me that since
an existing config file was found, it was making a backup copy of the
NEW one. How nice.
Given this, can I rest assured that RH 6.1 won't replace my qmail
installation with sendmail if I upgrade my mail server? Or trash all my
config files?
A better thing to do is to subscribe to upgrade/security notification
lists and selectively upgrade only things that affect your installation.
>
> > BTW, RH 5.0 is pretty unstable too. You sure that isn't 5.2 you have?
> >
>
> That's news to me!
> I've been using RH from the 4.2 days without any problems!
> (And, BTW, it's not RH's stability you are talking about, but the kernel
> you get with it, right? Or you mean that RH's packages which came in that
> distro caused problems?)
The packages. I've been doing a lot of upgrading on my 6.0 installation
simply because most of the GNOME packages were highly unstable. Needed
to download more than 200 megs to get a decent desktop.
I use Mandrake 6.1 now. It's much better updated than RH 6.0 (no
graphical installation though), but I've heard reports of some major
problems in it's file-system related code. I haven't experienced any
trouble yet, nor have any idea what the problem is. Some other time on
this.
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