Ambrosio Berdijo wrote: > Lastly, some reasons why people still run old Linux/BSD/Unix systems. > > 1. Why change when everything is running well. Why risk upgrading to > the latest/greatest kernel when firewall/router/dns/email system is > already secured and running well. It may even be riskier migrating all > the settings+data to a new system. You hit the nail on the head right there! > 2. You have a lot of data on your system. Ask yourself, do you really > want to take the risk of losing all the StarGate/StarTrek episodes > stored in your RAID5 ReiserFS disk system just because of a new RedHat > release? Backup/Restore would sold this, but if it's a production server.......... well, you know... > 3. You have some major software (e.g. Oracle database) that > specifically works on that version of the distro. 4. Your hardware is certified to run only on that version of that distro, and the manufacturer has included CD's for that distro version only and they support only that distro version for that hardware...
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