It depends on what you want to learn.
I used redhat 4.2, then 5.1 then 5.2 and i can tell you that the main
differences are for stability (new libc, new binutils, new kernel ...)
you could upgrade parts of it manually (compiling 2.0.36 kernel is not
hard) and still run redhat5.0 while reading your book.
The unix part of redhat has not changed from the user point of vue.
You will have slightly different admin tools (the ones that comes from
redhat => linuxconf, printtool ...) but that is not really an issue.
I suggest you start reading with your actual config and if you find that
it is really a pain then upgrade/re-install.
If you don't have special datas on it, reinstalling is not long anyway.
NB: i have never UPGRADED any of my systems with the redhat upgrade
thing. I always backup my datas/config and re-install.
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen A Jones Jr [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 3:18 AM
To: linux stuff
Subject: redhat 5.0 or 5.2
hello,
i just recently got a more indepth book about linux..however it has
redhat5.2 on it..and i have 5.0 on the pc...is there much of an
improvement that i should reinstall it? thanks
stephen
