Mark Miksis;563194 Wrote: > Why are you using such an old version of Mandriva? I think they > switched to a threaded perl in more recent releases.
Actually 2008.0 is still a supported version so it secure and it is an extremely stable version. Thus it is completely usable for a file server machine. There is no reason for me to waste my precious time upgrading it to have something newer just for newness sake. SBS is the only software it runs that isn't distro supplied, and now that I know what needs doing it would take only a few minutes of my time to reinstall SBS. The fact that the machine can run virtually indefinitely without any problems is of primary importance for its use as a server--and a newer distro would not improve on this, it would probably lead to less stability! In fact, I will tell you that I am displeased with some aspect of virtually every current Linux release. I am a CS prof. and teach Linux sysadmin courses, so have looked at many, many distros recently. My MDV 2008.0 and 2008.1 machines run continuously for many months without rebooting or even logging out of KDE3. Sadly, recent Linuxes have been adding so many "cutting edge" features/software that they have sacrificed stability and/or usability. E.g., KDE4 continues to lack a significant number of capabilities that I use extensively and it remains substantially less stable than KDE3.5. -- ncarver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ncarver's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15905 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80564 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
