On Thu, 28 May 1998, Robert A. Hayden wrote:
> Hell, has anyone upgraded from 4.2?  I haven't found out a reason to yet.

If you are developing software that will be deployed more than a year from now,
you may be interested in 5.1. If you're a techie who just has to have the
latest greatest stuff, you may be interested in 5.1. If you're setting up a new
Internet server you may be interested in 5.1, because glibc is a bit faster
than libc5 and Red Hat is always faster to release security fixes for their
"bleeding edge" platforms. And finally, if you're developing cross-platform,
something that must run both on Alpha and Intel, you may be interested in 5.1
because both platforms use glibc.

If you're developing stuff that has to work on all Linux machines *NOW*, 
you must do it on 4.2. If you're deploying application servers today,
you must do it on 4.2, because the 5.x series is not stable enough yet.
As long as you keep up with all the security upgrades, 4.2 still has a
definite place in the corporate world. I'm just glad Red Hat listened to all of
us in the business community when we said we needed something stable as well as
something bleeding edge.  

Eric Lee Green       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Linux & Educational Administration computer solutions
        See http://members.tripod.com/~e_l_green


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