On 02/26/2018 08:29 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Adrien Monteleone <[email protected]> writes: > >> True, the version in EPEL7 is 2.6.18, one version back, soon to be two >> versions back. >> >> I too was wondering the issue, now I see that essentially, nothing >> ever gets back-ported for RHEL, so newer RPMs can’t pull in >> dependencies because they don’t exist in the older repositories. They >> can provide 10 years of support, because it’s essentially frozen. >> >> Your experience and explanation makes me glad I never tried RHEL. > RHEL is a great server platform. > It SUCKS as a desktop platform.
> I would question why Jean-David chose it for a desktop, because it's > really not designed for that. It is designed for long-term stability, > which is exactly counter to being able to frequently upgrade to new > software. I mainly chose RHEL for my desktop when it was running servers as well as the usual desktop applications. I had been running the regular Red Hat Unix versions up to 7.3. I tried Red Hat 9 and it did not run IBM DB2 very well, that I needed for database work. I started tunning RHEL3 on one machine and upgraded another machine to CentOS 4. One reason I keep running RHEL is just because I cannot stand having to update Fedora systems so often. The minor updates are usually OK, but when a new release comes out, it takes way too much time to install and configure it. It inly takes a couple of hours to install the software, but it usually takes me about a month to get it all configured correctly. And when the releases are now SELinux, getting that right ... . Well if you have done it, you know what I mean. And if you have not, good luck to you. > > Besides, who keeps (desktop) computers for 10 years? I refresh my > laptop every 3. > I keep them that long. I kept my first machine 14 years, but after four years, I added a second computer and networked them together, and after another four years, I built yet another and kept it until the power supply exploded (at about years old). Until that happened, it was working just fine but by then the power supply was so obsolete that I could not find any with the right power and the right connections. I donated the oldest one to someone who used it for some parts (very good dial-up modem when I no longer needed modems). The next one I junked (dual 550 MHz Pentium III processors, 512 Megabytes RAM). I thought about upping the RAM, but decided against that because those processors were just too slow.I only kept it around because I had a Windows XP license for it to do my taxes on it. My current machine is 64-bits, has a 4-core Xeon processor, 8 GBytes RAM. The mother board will take two Xeon processors, 512 GBytes RAM. At one time, I might have needed that, but right now I sure do not. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://linuxcounter.net ^^-^^ 17:40:01 up 32 days, 6:37, 2 users, load average: 4.22, 4.25, 4.43 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
