[lug] FW: Student Buff Bulletin 08/30/2007

[Collins Richey]

On 9/3/07, Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:06:08PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> >putting down whom? Ancient is rather factual. We use RHEL4 at work -
> >adequate for development tasks, but you would never confuse it with an
> >up-to-date distro, and before Debian Etch was released Debian Stable
>
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here, but it seems to me that you're
> saying "an old version of RHEL feels old".  The current version of RHEL is
> 5, released in April of 2007.  It's based on FC6, which was released around
> 10 months ago.
>
> I'm not sure it's at all fair, even in the fast-moving computer industry,
> to call either of these "ancient".
>

At our place, we have mostly RHEL4 (quite mouldy). We're waiting on a
proprietary product (Rational ClearCase) to come up with RHEL5
support.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.