Re: Stick with Red Hat 7.3?

David W.E. Roberts wrote:

>Hi,
>
>this may seem a major heresy for the Valhalla list, but here goes :-)
>
>I currently have a P120 running RH 7.3 (albeit not very well).
>
>My major problem is the time it takes to recompile.
>This severely limits the experimentation I can do with kernel building.
>
>I have just bought a 2.6GHZ Celeron system (for under £300!) to be my new
>Linux development system.
>
>With this I can presumably also compile kernels for my old system as long as
>I keep the source trees seperate (probably safer than just using different
>build files).
>
>So do I go for the latest greatest version of Red Hat (whatever it is now
>called) - which may be beyond the spec. of my oldest machine - or choose
>from 9, 8, or stay with 7.
>
>I am quite happy to stay with RH 7.3 as long as it is compatible with my new
>system. This has sound, network and graphics all on the motherboard and I
>don't know if recent MBs are supported by RH 7.3.
>
>All my manuals are RH7 - releases change far faster than the manuals,
>generally :-)
>
>Any advice welcomed.
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If you want to get the "good" stuff.......get the advanced server or 
workstation from redhat. 
I went with suse for workstations and servers.  The servers are better 
(in my opinion) for working with Oracle databases...Suse has been for years.
Basically, play around a bit and see what you like!  Get the fedora and 
try it out.  I went with suse due to having to work in certified 
environments for oracle.

Good luck,
Oskar

>Cheers
>Dave R
>
>
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