On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 02:00, Elaine Tsiang wrote: > I have been running a RH7.2 with a RH6.2 on the same subnet. I have turned > the RH6.2 into a Potato. I just found out that a 2.2 Linux serving a 2.4 > Linux NSF in Debian has problems - and I haven't found an answer yet. Other > things like USB mass storage, wireless stuff also live in 2.4. If you really want to run a 2.4 kernel on your Potato machine, grab Adrian Bunk's packages before you install a 2.4 kernel. > Why I installed Potato instead of Woody is so much water under the bridge - > being a newbie, I wanted to make sure I reach stability on all previous > functions, relying on the assumption that any problem I encounter is not due > to some bug in Debian. Those functions are far from exotic. The Potato is > just a small web server now. So I wonder whether I should upgrade to Woody > now, after having just gotten Potato running, instead of tryinig to solve the > 2.2-2.4 compatability problem(s)? The eventual goal is to turn the RH7.2 into > a Woody also, but one potato at a time. Any known RH7.2/Woody > incompatibility issues? You might as well save yourself the trouble of backporting some packages from Woody or Sid by upgrading to Woody, as it's close to becoming stable (being already frozen). Just don't go blaming Debian if there are some security issues yet to be resolved, as Woody is still officially the testing distribution. > And does anybody recommend just upgrading the kernel to 2.4 (deprecated by > Debian) instead of going to Woody? Deprecated is too harsh (as well as incorrect) a term for Debian. Then again, you might as well go to testing to get fairly recent software. Upgrading your distro wouldn't upgrade your kernel by the way. > What's the cost of one Woody, after having paid one uneaten dinner and one > sleepless night over one Potato? To put it bluntly, you need not have sleepless nights or uneaten dinner to go either way to Woody or potato. It really depends on the functionality you need (as opposed to what you want) as to where you want to go. -- -->paolo Paolo Alexis Falcone pfalcone@free.net.ph GnuPG KeyID 0xEADFF6F4 Tel# (632)6429577 Fax# (632)6429561 Mobile# +639174379283 ___________________________________________________________________ "You are a software developer. On the cutting edge. You need the latest and greatest in computer technology. That's why you use, uh, Unix. Yeah. Anyway, even if your operating system harks back to the 1960s, you definitely can't live without the most modern software development and management systems available" -- quote adapted
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