On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 10:02 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 09:05, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > Just my opinion, but I would tend to go with the newest I could get my > > hands on. I had a similar experience with a company that was a > > collection agency. They were still running RHL 7.3 and wanted to know > > why their system wasn't supported anymore. They, via their primary > > consultant, were also afraid to upgrade to a newer version because of an > > irrational fear things wouldn't work - despite having an updated system > > with their critical software applications running on it demonstrated to > > them. They actually came in and rolled back to RHL 7.3 after completing > > an upgrade because of this fear and then tried to say I didn't do > > anything for them. <sheesh...!> > > First, you should be aware that you can still get updates for RH7.3 and > RH9 from the repositories at http://fedoralegacy.org/, although I > don't think it is anyone's highest priority to keep them current. I have been aware of this since it started. The issue in this case was, as you mentioned, that updates for RHL 7.3 are not a priority compared to other things and they were cracked once due to an un-patched vulnerability. Also, in this case, the required applications worked flawlessly on Fedora Core 3. They just didn't want to believe / trust it and opted to return to an un-patched RHL system with the same overall configuration as had been cracked before. Kind of a "devil you know vs. devil you don't" mentality. Cheers, Chris -- ====================== When the solution is simple, God is answering. -- Albert Einstein
