[lug] RedHat 9?

[Michael Deck]

At 09:56 AM 5/21/2003, efm at tummy.com wrote:
>* On 2003-05-21 15:50 Elyse Grasso <emgrasso at data-raptors.com> wrote:
>> Just received the May KRUD disks, which are now based off RedHat 9. The 
>> transition 7.x to 8 was messy (there's stuff I still haven't gotten 
>> working again since the update). And now I'm using my laptop for work 
>> related stuff and don't have a lot of time to spend retweaking it. 
>> 
>> Does anyone have any feelings for how ugly this transition is likely to 
>> be? Upgrade at lunch? Upgrade this evening? Wait for the long weekend? 
>> Run away screaming and reconsider switching to mandrake (since I'm a 
>> KDE user...)?
>> 
>> I know that RedHat 9 breaks qmail... any other gotchas to watch out for?

Can anyone elaborate on this? It seems like my upgrades always take _days_ because first Qmail gets busted and then Mailman. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but if the latest KRUD is going to make that worse, I'll wait...



Michael Deck
Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.