Re: RHEL4

[Howard Owen <hbo egbok com>]

All other thing being equal, I'd go with RHEL4, just because it reflects
another 14 months or so of open source progress. The new kernel is a
bigger leap than even that long time would imply, of course.

However, I would scan this list's archives for reports of problems
people are having with certain RAID devices and SAN technologies. It
doesn't seem like those are an issue for you, however, given the
hardware you describe. 

Also, you don't purchase RHEL3 or RHEL4, you purchase Red Hat Enterprise
Linux. You then load the version you want, inclusive from RHAS 2.1
through RHEL4. So if RHEL4 doesn't work for you, for whatever reason,
you can down level to any of the other two.

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 13:59 -0800, Aviram Carmi wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Got three questions related to upgrading/installing RHEL4:
> 
> Would you upgrade an existing RHEL3 to RHEL4 now? or wait a while for 
> it to stabilize?
> 
> If you had a brand new server, would you install RHEL3 and later 
> upgrade to RHEL4? or would you install RHEL4? now? wait a while?
> 
> If I should wait before installing RHEL4, how long? till Update 1?
> 
> I can wait since I really only need two linux  boxes, and my old one, 
> a 933Mhz PIII which is running RH 7.3 is doing just fine, I got the 
> new server just because I got a great deal from Dell: dual capable 
> 3.0Mhz Xeon with the 64bit EM64T 800fsb, two 1GB DDR2, and two 160GB 
> Serial ATA drives, for only $800, free shipping, I just could not 
> resist...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -avi
> 
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