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

[Hugh Brown]

Collins Richey wrote:
> 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.
> 


My experience so far working with RH5 is that it felt like they put all 
of their effort into getting the Xen stuff working/integrated and then 
shipped, even though a variety of things were still in a state of 
half-completion.  My current hope is that 5.1 will take care of the 
non-Xen stuff that they should have before shipping 5.  If you've got 
the option, I'd wait for 5.1 (in beta, supposed to come out Novemberish).

Hugh