Ok, how bout SuSE 9.0?

[Bill Vermillion]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:59:16AM -0400, Walter Vaughan thus spoke:
> Bill Vermillion wrote:
> 
> >But try not to drag me into the "My OS is better than you OS
> >discussions".  They don't do much but annoy the pig.

> [oink..oink]

[I hope you recall the joke that is from]

....

> All ports are "fresh". Hence the term "freshports". But that
> doesn't mean cutting edge. It seemed to me that the ports
> collection didn't move to apache 1.3.31 until sometime in the
> last few days.

And the ports tools are handy.  When there was a the flaw in the
SSL Apache last February, all I had to do was type:

portupgrade apache*

and just let it run.  The rsync fix I mentioned to Mark that
my portaudit program mailed to me was fixed the same way.

> As far as kernel versions, you can keep as many versions around
> as you want. As far as I know, you could could reboot to a 4.0
> or a 4.10-RC3 kernel and not really know the difference other
> than what uname spits out (or if you had hardware that required
> a later kernel version).

There is a limit depending on your base system.  Since the OS and
kernel are thought of as an entity - not a separate kernel as under
Linux - they should be run together.

What will happen if you try to run too old a version - the base OS
programs that depend on certain changes in the kernel are going to
fail or complain loudly. As I recall there were changes from the
4.0 to the later versions that would probably make a 4.0
problematic, but later 4.x versions should be fine.

> I continue this discussion, since I know several readers of
> this list have almost two decades of experience with running
> filePro on SCO, and perhaps are looking for a reasonable
> alternatives for *new* installs.

> On the otherhand if I had an install that never will see the light of 
> the internet, and is already running good on 5.0.4 -> 5.0.7, then I'd 
> get me a copy of the OpenServer "Classic" when it comes out, and not 
> worry about anything for the next 15 years.

> [oink...oink]

:-)

This 'pig' line goes back to a phrase that Mark and I have tossed
about in emails.

It's a variant on the old "Never try to teach a pig to sing, it
will only frustrate you and it annoys the hell out of the pig"

That seems to adequately describe so many of the OS wars and their
follow-on arguments.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com