[ale] BlueCurve cure?

[Dow Hurst]

This is an interesting point for debate:

Do you really need to upgrade?  My thought is that unless you have a 
security problem inherent with some package or need some special new 
functionality, why upgrade it?  It may be that many could stay with the 
last update for Redhat 7.2 for a long time.  Being behind a firewall, 
not needing to upgrade the kernel or libraries, patching by hand what 
might absolutely have to be patched could leave you at Redhat 7.2 for a 
long time, correct?

The reason I am posting this is I was looking at a project where the 
distro in use was Redhat 5.1.  It was a steam turbine, engine or boiler 
testbed, I think.  They had a bunch of custom software built on top of 
the old RedHat and just kept it running along.  I am sure they had 
secured access somehow and limited what daemons/ports were available.
Dow


Stephen F Nicholas wrote:

>Drew,
>I agree with you on Rh 7.2 .  However as much we like 7.2, its EOL is at
>the end of this year (according to the RH press releases), and we'll be
>forced to upgrade :-(
>
>Steve
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>On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
>
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>>I have found that if you install RedHat 7.2 and then use up2date, you can get 
>>upgraded packages and keep the desktop. IMHO, upgraded RedHat 7.2 is faster, 
>>and more stable than 8.0. This technique will probably work with 7.3
>>
>>Drew
>>
>>On Saturday 08 February 2003 12:16 pm, Alexander Barton wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>So, I finally upgraded from RedHat 7.3 to 8.0.  I absolutely cannot
>>>stand the new dumb-downed BlueCurve desktop.  I have a looong rant about
>>>everything that's wrong and unfixable with BlueCurve, but I'll spare you.
>>>
>>>I want my old GNOME desktop back like it was in 7.3.  RedHat's
>>>documentation mentions setting the desktop in /etc/sysconfig/desktop,
>>>but it looks as if BlueCurve *is* the GNOME desktop in 8.0.  Is there an
>>>easy way to go back?  Perhaps some theme or configuration file
>>>somewhere?  Help!
>>>
>>>At this point, I'm about ready to resinstall 7.3 and then manually
>>>upgrade, package by package, form all the non-GNOME rpms in 8.0.
>>>
>>>Perhaps it's time to drop RedHat and investigate Mandrake or Debian?
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Alexander
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