On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 00:17, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I have to say that I upgraded to RH9, but after spending days trying to get > my system back to my RH8 state with all the extras I just said fsckit and > ghosted my image back to RH8. This is no fault of RedHat per say, but I just > think there is more support out there for RH8 rpms and finding RH9 rpms was > getting to be tiresome. I think I'll wait a generation till RHX. In the past > couple weeks, I had an epiphany that it's better to have a system that is > solid and works and I can be productive, than trying to always be on the > bleeding edge... VMWare was the 'killer ap' that I needed to work for me. I > just couldn't seem to get the networking working in RH9 as seemlessly as it > did with RH8, and as a php/mysql/web developer, I need to have VMWare > running on my notebook (connected to the raw partition dual boot!) so I can > code pages in Homesite but seem the really work. That is by far the absolute > slickest thing ever... > Daevid, I have similar needs (I am a regular user of Vmware, running the server side of my apps in Linux and the client side in Vmware / Windows NT). Since a long time ago, my "operational strategy", regarding versions of both Red Hat & SuSE, has been to use the (latest-1) version of these distributions.
And I have to say that this strategy has worked very well so far for me. So, I am still using 8.0 and I will be waiting quite a bit more before I upgrade to 9 (even though, at times, I am tempted to go ahead and see what will happen...). > Daevid Vincent > http://daevid.com -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, Software Engineer, SAP-R/3 specialist, Registered Linux User #305894, Ximian Evolution (ver.1.4) on Red Hat Linux (8.0), Athens, GREECE, cell-phone: +306946462857, fax: +302108054420, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
