[Gllug] Glibc

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:58:22AM +0100, John Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:07:43AM +0100, John Winters wrote:
> > Mick Farmer wrote:
> >> Dear GLUGGers,
> >> 
> >> I'm running Red Hat Linux V 4 ...
> > 
> > Have they reset the Red Hat Linux version numbers or is that a
> > phenomenally old installation?  My recollection is that version 4.1 came
> > out about 1998, give or take a year or so.
> 
> I think he means Red Hat ENTERPRISE Linux. Still RHEL version 4 is
> about 5 years old and must be coming near the end of it's life as well.
> 
> Running the old Red Hat Linux 4 on any newish machine would be an
> achievement, as I doubt that the 2.0 kernel would support all the
> new hardware (eg SATA, Gigabit ethernet).

That's what virtualization is for :-) Keeping your old OS running forever
and ever and ever and ever and ever...


Daniel
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