[lug] RedHat 9?

[Kevin Fenzi]

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>>>>> "Philip" == Philip Cooper <Philip.Cooper at openvest.org> writes:

Philip> Didn't know about qmail.  Hmmm.  I'm also about to
Philip> upgrade. I'm taking my last machine and upgrading from
Philip> WindoZZZ to Red Had (I think).  My current plan to to beg for
Philip> a helpful soul to bring RH 8 cd's to the next Boulder Hacking
Philip> Society Mtg.

I have some krud-8 images on my laptop. I will be at the Hacking
Society meeting, so I should be able to burn you some. 
Also have 9 images. I would just reccomend you go to 9. 

Philip> I use Zope and offer the following snippets from lists over
Philip> there for your consideration.  Not that you use Zope or
Philip> python, but the issues with threading and RH upgrades might
Philip> impact some of your favorite apps also (ie YMMV).

Philip> <snip>
>>>> I have problems - *which freaks me out* - to start more than one
>>>> Zope thread on RedHat 9.0. What I tried:
>>>> 
>>>> a) upgraded kernel to 2.4.20-13.9 b) upgraded
>>>> glibc,glibc-common,glibc-devel to 2.3.2-27.9 c) tried "export
>>>> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1"

Philip> .......reinstall, recompile set flags stand on one foot and
Philip> bark like a dog.  I'm sure it's all simple stuff for most but
Philip> I'll take a pass.

Yeah, the new threading model breaks some apps. You can disable it and
make it act like the old threading by exporting that LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
env variable before starting your app. 

Philip> In another snip:

>>>> 1) Upgrade from RedHat 9.0 standard kernel 2.4.20-8 to
>>>> 2.4.20-13.9 and upgrade your glic and glic-common to
>>>> 2.3.2-27.9. Be carefull at this point and choose the right kernel
>>>> and(!) glibc for your processor type. If you have an i686, but
>>>> install i386 packages, your system will useless FOR EVER.

Philip> OUCH!!!

Thats hardly true. You can boot from the rescue cd and remove the
broken package and install the correct one. 

Philip> And maybe someone else has a take on:

>>>> ...Red Hat has admittedly become much more agressive in their
>>>> upgrades.  They want those requiring stability to purchase their
>>>> Enterprise versions, while the bleeding edge folk can stick with
>>>> their "regular" distribution.

I think redhat has been about as agressive as they always
have. Sometimes they upgrade something thats too bleeding and people
complain, sometimes they don't upgrade something fast enough and
people complain. ;) 

I think they keep reasonably up to date on things. If you want
something newer you can always pull down the rawhide package. 

Philip> On second thought ... if no one has RH 8 disks to bring to
Philip> Caffe Sole on thurs are there any debian disks out there :-?

I'm sure someone could get some debian cd's for you. 
You can also install from a small set of packages and download the
rest of the install.

kevin

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