According to Tim Moore: While burning my CPU.
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> I've only been running Linux for a week on RH4.2. I notice that there
> are loads of different Linux versions. What do they all do? Should I
> upgrade to Linux RH5.2 asap or what!
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> Tim (confused)
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You say linux versions, by than you possably mean "kernel" versions. having
redhat 4.2 you will possably have kernel 2.0.32 installed (or a number
close to that), that version of the kernel was "The stable version" of the
time when redhat 4.2 was issued.
You can upgrade your kernel to 2.0.36 without problems on a redhat 4.2
machine, however to use more recent kernels (2.2.x) you will need to upgrade
things like, libary's and utilitys, which for someone just starting with
linux is "NOT" a good idea, its far easier to install the latest version of
Redhat because that includes the stuff needed to use more recent kernels.
If it were up to me to tell you what to do, i would say, stick to Redhat-4.2
and upgrade your kernel version to 2.0.36 which is not all to difficult,
even for a beginner. After you are more setteld in the *nix way of things,
you could then install a more recent distribution of Redhat knowing a little
more about how and what to install.
If disk space is not a problem and you have a free partition then you could
install Redhat 5.2 alongside of redhat 4.2, i have 5 different distributions
installed on my system, all bootable via lilo.
In my opinion there is NOT the need to install Redhat 5.2 asap, only if you
want the newest of the newest, which can be a disadvantage sometimes, bugs
come free in open software, but thats my opinion.
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Regards Richard.
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