1. Yes it is http://press.redhat.com/2008/07/24/red-hat-enterprise-linux-47-released-today/
2. Only for development. We have a specific environment for deployment, compiling and testing the end product (which is a good idea anyhow IMHO. You don't want the customers be affected by a specific build issue a single developer has). 3. I'm afraid running everything with a VM will be too slow. I'm occasionally running an Ubuntu on a 2 years old laptop with Vista, and user experience is not so great. 4. I'm not sure. It's problematic since ClearCase 6 is only supported by IBM on RHEL 4.7, and we don't have new CC licenses. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Omer Zak <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. Is RHEL 4.7 still being supported by RedHat, and are security patches > still being made available? If yes, when is this support due to end? > > 2. Do you wish to use the up-to-date tools only for development, or also > in software to be delivered to the customer and/or deployed in the > company's operations? > > 3. How about installing a VM in RHEL 4.7 and doing your development in > the virtual machine, using a more recent version? This will at least > reduce the number of packages to be backported to RHEL 4.7 to those > which are needed for running the VM. > > 4. How difficult would it be to change company policy? > > > > On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 09:02 +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > > Due to company's policy, our development desktop stations must have > > RHEL 4.7 installed on them. > > However, RHEL's packages are extermely out of date (for instance, it > > still have python 2.3, etc.), and we wish to use many up too date > > development tools (I'm not aiming to the bleeding edge, however a > > stable release from the last year seems to me a desirable goal). > > We mostly need user-space software (editors, scripting environment, > > etc.). > > What's the best method to > > 1. Use reasonably new user-space software on RHEL 4.7 > > 2. Not to break too much the entire RHEL echosystem, or at least > > provide to ourselves a clear way to upgrade the foreign > > packages we'll install. > > I'm not really familiar with managing Red-Hat distribution, so any advice > will be welcomed. > > -- > You haven't made an impact on the world before you caused a Debian > release to be named after Snufkin. > My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ > > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which > I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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