David G. Mackay wrote:
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 07:25 +1030, Tim wrote:
One might think that if you're using a personal computer as a server,
that by the time a several-year lifespan OS reached end-of-life, you'd
probably want to be taking advantage of new hardware, as well. So an
upgrade by building a new machine, copying data over to it, and swapping
it over for the old server, would seem the prudent way to go about it.
Fedora seems to be getting away from this, but one of the selling points
for Slackware used to be that you could take some of the older hardware
that wouldn't be able to handle the latest Microsoft OS, and still do
useful things with it under Linux.
Centos 3.x is still a moderately good choice for this. In fedora terms
it would be very, very similar to FC1 (2.4 kernel, etc.) but still
getting updates.
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Les Mikesell
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