Re: Red Hat 6.1

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Chris J/#6 wrote:

> I know of an older Slackware box though...our company firewall, apart from 
> the kernel, hasn't been upgraded at all...the CD's state it comes with kernel 
> 1.9.<summat> (IIRC)...now running 2.0.32...

I think you're remembering a little off.  The last 1.x.x servies kernel was
a 1.3.x, and I seriously doubt that a company would be nuts enough to run a
kernel on a development kernel.

Probably 1.2.13, the tastiest kernel around.

Slackware works well for servers and firewalls and such, though.  You can
get it nice and small and slick and lean - and it doesn't encourage you to
madly upgrade everything every ten minutes or so, with an apt-get
--dist-upgrade - a good thing for stability (in general).

That is why I keep my Slackware disks close to hand (hung on the belt next
to the knife... <grin>) - never know when I might be called upon to do a quick
server install.

Hmmm...

"That's not a Linux distribution... _THIS_ is a Linux distribution..."

> Next major upgrade will be a different distribution again - I like variety :) 

Keep 'em on their toes.  

> Wno't be for a year or two though yet. :)

Distro changes are a dish best served cold, eh?


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