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

[Collins Richey]

On 9/3/07, Hugh Brown <hugh at math.byu.edu> wrote:
> 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).
>

Ah, but now we've come full circle to the "an inferior distro" quip
for which we were roundly chastised <grin>.

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