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[Fairlight]

At Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:54:14AM -0500 or thereabouts, 
suspect Jay Ashworth was observed uttering:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:43:41AM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> > Welcome.  And if that system is not a stanalone server, when are you
> > updating the OS?  RH9 goes EOL on April 31.
> > 
> > Not that you -have- to migrate, I suppose.  I'm maintaining some 7.x
> > systems for people.  It's just more expensive to maintain.
> 
> And for what it's worth, it's mostly an issue if the machine is in some
> way exposed to the Internet.  I have one client whom we just this month
> upgraded from (are you sitting down? :-) Red Hat 5.2.

Hence my comments about if it's not a standalone...

And Arcadia's linux side of the dual-boot is still RH 5.2.  No, I'm not
kidding.

> Their CMOS battery was dying.

Hardly requiring of an OS upgrade.  You can jumper in AA battery packs.  I
did that on a 486.

I'm building a nice collection of hand-rolled RH-cooperative rpm's for 7.2
and 7.3 systems that have updated versions of things.  Kernel 2.4.25, PHP
4.3.4, and I'm working on perl 5.8.3, although that's being quite bitchy
because of how they implemented it and the dependancies back and forth.  So
far, it's my least favourite of the lot.  Unlike PHP and the kernel, this
one is for features, not security.  Perl 5.8 has -vastly- improved signal
handling over everything prior to 5.7.3.  I don't mean just a little, I
mean a lot improved.

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