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Re: Which version



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

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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