Am Dienstag, den 12.07.2005, 03:25 +0200 schrieb harald kapper:
> on the other hand we still have systems running rh7, rh9 and even rh6 -
> from mail to dns servers up to authentication servers (but hey those
> boxes are well contained behind firewalls) and I guess like any other
> decent sysadmin I can only advise you to plan migration, evaluate new
> systems and simply forget about "ah new version - lets upgrade" :)
>
Full Ack!
> the only reason besides its being free for us to go core were the newer
> libraries and especially web-developers do force us to have webservers
> running the latest bells and whistles (ok I stop whining), but I'd never
> even evaluate a not 100% supported system for critial services that
> people start yelling at me if they don't work 24x7 - whereas webservers
> in farms I still can turn a few off without a lot of complaints (but
> thats me) for upgrading for a few minutes.
>
Full Ack!
> so in the redhat perspective I'd say fc4 is the newest and latest
> testground (we have php5, new mysql and lots of other fancy stuff) and
> whoever tried this first without testing - well - should probably
> consider another job except sysadmin. and I like this, but we just did
> upgrade to fc3 and will stay here for a while, in fact we will fork lots
> of boxes to rhel4 in order to maintain a php4 base and as we see fc4
> mature we will probably move servers up.
>
What should i say. I hear the audience applauds :-)
> my 15 minutes :)
>
This were one of the best 15 Minutes here since a long time.
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