On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:50:02PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Troy Bull wrote: > > I am totally new to debian. I recently downloaded and installed 3.1r4 I > > noticed that is seems very old. > > NO, that's plainly not true. Stable sarge was released 1 1/2 years ago. > That's not very old. If you are comparing to other distros you should > compare the enterprise versions of different distributions to debian > sarge. On these measures debian sarge, aka stable, aka 3.1 is not 'very > old'. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has about the same version numbers as > sarge. Suse had older software before 10.0 came out last July. [1] > No kidding. Where I am working now, we run custom software and hardware that is only supported on RHEL 3. That is kernel 2.4.21!
Sarge is not old by practically any measure. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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