RH 7.3 is so ancient, you're virtually required to update. Scary! The answer is... throw the problem to your vendor. Hardware and software certification should be the vendor's problem. Ditto for support.
<random-vendor-plug> download Oracle Enterprise Linux for free! and get support for the piddling sum of $99/year </random-vendor-plug> Now, if you don't have a vendor... then welcome to the Free Software world, where rolling your own is expected. :-) That said, if I were in that position, I'd upgrade. Or find another system to run the "latest greatest" software. Here's the thing.. if your "latest greatest software" requires a new GLIBC, it will require new libraries for EVERYTHING ELSE. That's guaranteed. GLIBC is so basic, so fundamental to the OS (the OS WILL NOT BOOT without GLIBC) that if an application requires a new GLIBC, it basically requires a new OS. On 7/5/07, Jun Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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... > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Orlando Andico Sales Consulting - Emerging Technologies ASEAN Oracle (Philippines) Corporation The statements and opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
