Burnie wrote:
Well, I still run "RH 7.3" on quite a few of my boxes... Mostly because it works, and migration could break things.
Took the words right out of my mouth! 7.3 is a fine server distribution and contains nearly anything you might need. RH 8 annoyingly moved things around, especially the location of some configuration files in /etc. My sense is that most of the emphasis on distributions after 7.3 was primarily targeted at improving the desktop experience, which is irrelevant to me. When I've needed to upgrade something, I'll usually search first for an SRPM, then build it from source tarballs if I can't find one. The last time I recall doing the latter was to install the "delegation-only" patches to BIND after Verisign tried hijacking the domain name service.
In the present context, I'm running up-to-date versions of MailScanner, SpamAssassin and ClamAV just fine on my 7.3 boxes.
SRPMs are your friend. And, there is always fedoralegacy....
Peter
