Re: Friday Flames - What to do with RHL7.3/9 and FC1/2

[Jeff Sheltren <sheltren cs ucsb edu>]

On Jun 10, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Lawrence 'The Dreamer' Chen wrote:

> Well, I was thinking that when I get settled after my upcoming  
> relocation and
> my new job, that I wanted to see about building another machine  
> (because I plan
> to replace my W2K server) so I can help with continuing support of  
> RH73.
>
> Yes, my RH73 is also probably not quite stock...anymore....though  
> the upgrade
> from RH72 to RH73 wasn't really that long ago.  But, I don't know  
> about the
> worry about hardware failure.  Over the years I've experienced  
> failures...but
> the machine continues to run fine.  I'm on my 3rd root disk for the  
> machine,
> the last I lost due to a power outage just a few months ago.

Is there a reason why you would go with RH 7.3 instead of RHEL or  
something similar?  Why would you setup a machine with an OS that is  
already unsupported?

-Jeff