On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:43 -0700, alan wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Daniel B. Herrington wrote: > > > I've got to build a sybase 12- server on redhat 7. ASE requires 2.4.9 or > > greater though. > > > > I built a redhat 7.2, but maybe should do a 7.3 as that seems to be the > > easier route. > > Why are you using a Linux distrobution that has not been supported for 5+ > years? > > -- > Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense.
Redhat 7.x was a good run. It is 2.4.x based which seems ancient, but Sybase 12 may require ancient kernels. So, should the old Sybase software be abandoned because the Linux kernel and C libraries have changed? Linux may change less in the future than it has in the past, which I hope will be the case. The API changes over time pose a real problem as there are still among the vendors that support Linux a number that don't offer open source software. This closed source software which can be very popular is not fixable. Some minor examples are the Nvidia and Catalyst video card drivers, but there are other examples as well. I'm sure the Linux kernel developers are trying to provide a more consistent API over time, but it may be too early for that. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
