On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Anu Mathew wrote:
I am asking this, as I have some systems running RH5.0 (2.0.36) since ages. Of course, I had upgraded sendmail,apache, PHP etc over these years on these boxes, and they are serving me well since their inception. IOW, *they do what they are supposed to do*, leaving nothing much to whine about.
If u have upgraded these things to the latest versions , then IMO ur installation is not deemed to be called RH5.0
if you also upgrade the kernel you can safely assume that ur installation is comparable with RH8.0
pls correct me if i'm wrong
However, any new system I build goes with "somewhat decently" recent versions of Linux [ie, RH7.0 (2.2.16-22) or 7.2, even though RH 8.0 is the current cool and hype thing.]
Sadly, i'm too observing ppl trying to have the latest and the greatest
How do we treat the older kernels? Tear 'em down?
I guess older Kernels should be replaced by (stable) newer ones The reason being they are (presumably) stabler, support more hardware and filesystems
I guess older Kernels did not support ext3 and Reiserfs Newer ones do
IMHO having latest and greatest ( both Hardware and Software ) is finally matter of ur convenience and ( more ) of ur attitude
Oh, and people still use DOS if it gets their job done.