Harry wrote:
> It might be worth evaluating what core apps/servers use (similar to what
> Mandrake's 'carbon' apps are), and provide regular updates of these for
> systems going back two revisions - in our present state: Mandrake 8.0 and
> Mandrake 7.2.
>
> I hope this makes some sense,
>
> Harry
You, yourself, said that .0 releases are somewhat unstable, so fllowing
that logic, 7.2 should be more stable than 8.0. Why would you want to
risk stability by adding upgrades? 7,2 was tested for stability and the
fact that stuff works. Security updates are provided because they are
more or less necessary. If you are of the mindset that you need to be
running the latest and greatest, cooker may be what you want, but you'll
have to throw stability out the Window.
What, does Microsoft support even one OS back? NT 4.0 has something like
7 service packs, but Windows 2000 only has 2, and already they are
trying to toss it away and make everyone upgrade to Windows XP, and
unlike Mandrake, they are not open source, so you more or less must do
what they say.
Since Mandrake cannot force you to upgrade, and since you may even
choose to upgrade for *free*, this is ahrdly the situation like
Microsoft poses, where you must upgrade -- or else.
For a production server, 7.2 may be the best... production serves don't
run the latest and greatest, they run *production* quality. That said,
nothing is stopping you from grabbing the cooker SRPMS and compiling for
yourself on 7.2/8.0 if you know what you are doing.
--
Sincerely,
David Walluck
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