On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: > > > I installed RH9.0 on a machine with 512MB of RAM without any problems > > > how much does RH9 differ from RH7.3 as far as core system, TCP/IP and so on, is > concerned; *not* the desktop and skins ? > > I know it has some new eye candy, and, Apache 2, BUT, is there any > difference at TCP/IP level and stuff like that ? > In my experience, and that's a lot, RedHat 9 under the hood is pretty close to RedHat 7.3. You can quite often grab source RPM's from RedHat 9 and compile them to run on 7.3 (as I've done for some) although you can get in a bit of a dependency mess sometimes. On RH9 sendmail's done in a peculiar client-server way which caught me. Also if you should watch out for /etc/sysconfig/networking/ directory, this is where 'profiles' of network setups are stored and I frequently delete the crap it puts in there when I want to hand-code the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-xxx files. wu-ftpd is replaced with vsftp, there's a bunch of redhat-config-xxxx scripts which is nice. Most of the text configs are still valid, vi is my main config tool.
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