[ale] red hat naming

[Jeff Lightner]

RHEL is up to 5 now so your Shrike (RH 9) systems are 5 major releases behind.  Fedora is up to 9 so from that standpoint they're 10 major releases behind.

If the app is certified on RHEL4.5 that has a 2.6 kernel so it may run on RHEL5 as well though it may take some effort to do it the RHEL5 way.   I had to do this for Oracle 10gR2 RAC which was certified but the install documents hadn't caught up.

RHEL4 would definitely bring you into the current way of doing things.  Of course you need to verify your hardware will load it.  The drivers in 2.6 kernel based systems aren't necessarily the same as 2.4 though there are ways to get things working.

P.S.  As another suggested you should be able to get information from /etc/redhat-release.  Also some from uname -a and some from /etc/issue.

Don't feel bad about the RH 9 - I just retired my last RH 7.3 system earlier this month - only 3 years after I first suggested it needed to be replaced. Now if only I could get rid of my HP-UX 10.20 systems...

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul Cartwright
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 10:32 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] red hat naming

On Sat June 28 2008, Jim Kinney wrote:
> That a system is out there with a pile of security holes and it needs to be
> replaced/upgraded immediately. If for bazillion-year old application
> reasons it can't be  upgraded, it will need to be severely firewalled and
> access limited for security reasons.
>
most of these systems are in corporate offices, behind firewalls.. in some 
places they won't even let me connect my laptop into their system ( I have no 
problem with that) and in others, they let me get internet access, but NOT in 
their network..

> You can most likely run bazillion-year old app on a RedHat EL v.3. There
> are *compat libs that let older things run well.

our app is certified to run on RHEL 4.5 NOW, but  I started putting it on RHEL 
3 update 4 2 years ago..


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Paul Cartwright
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