[plug] re: RHL Professional

[Ben Jensz]

Bret Busby wrote:

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>But, will the later version REALLY work with the hardware, and with any 
>utilitites/applications running on that configuration?
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>Good example; our server - happily runs RH 6.2. RH 9? No way.
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>Oh, and, stuff that runs on the OS may not work with the later version.
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>Our firewall, which uses ipchains, runs happily on RH 6.2, but not on RH 
>7.3.
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Well obviously with a complete major kernel version change you're going 
to have problems with other stuff dependent on specific things within 
the kernel which _have_ changed.

>Apart from utilities, there have been applications that also have 
>problems running on later versions of OS's; eg, from memory, GRAMPS had 
>problems running earlier versions (than the latest version)on RH 9. PINE 
>(from memory) had problems running on RH 9.
>
>Later version, does not necessarily mean that it fits with what runs 
>with earlier version.
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Well if something was certified to run on Red Hat 7.2, I'd expect it to 
run fine on Red Hat 7.3 as well.  Major version numbers may be 
different, but minor versions shouldn't be a problem really.  If there 
are significant changes in a minor version... then really it shouldn't 
be a minor version.  Just like Red Hat thought there were too many major 
improvements/upgrades in 9.0 over 8.0 to call it 8.1.


/ Ben