WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4

[Stefan Held]

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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