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Re: redhat 7.2 install/upgrade experiences?
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001, guy keren wrote about "redhat 7.2 install/upgrade experiences?":
> i need to help some company upgrade some machines from RH 6.2 to RH 7.X .
>
> on the surface, i think upgrading to RH 7.2 should be done, even thought
> its a bit new. the reason is that i didn't hear of problems with it - yet.
> however, if i hear there are problems there, then i'd stick to redhat 7.1.
>
> so, if anyone has experience with redhat 7.2, i'd appreciate your your
> comments.
I'm very satisfied with Redhat 7.2, and I don't think there is any reason
to stick to Redhat 7.1. Redhat 7.2 wasn't a huge leap foward from 7.1, but
it contains many small bug fixes (e.g., unmounting reiserfs partitions
finally works ;)), improvements to many utilities (XFree86 4.1, zsh 4,
mozilla 0.9.2, etc.) as well as some strange down-grades (VIM downgraded from
6.0 to 5.8, and no longer supports unicode...), kernel improvements (supports
more hardware, ext3 journaled file system by default, etc.). 7.2 is also
only 2 CDs, compared to 7.1's 3 CDs (including the powertools), which is good.
7.2's grub is very nice and easier to use than lilo.
So unless you hear that Redhat 7.2 has some huge flaw, I'd go with 7.2, not
7.1.
Whatever distribution you get, make sure to also get all of Redhat's security
updates.
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