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Re: Red Hat 5:0 <-> RH 4.2



On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Oori Hasson wrote:

> I remember that some weeks ago people here complained about instability 
> and some irregularities in RH5's libc and X system. 
> 
> I wanted to know if RH5.0  is currently considered stable, or I should 
> use the previous version for a critical server.
> 
> What brought this up was attemting to compile to programs (using 
> autoconf) that compiled clean out of the box on all linux systems up to 
> date, but failed on the RH5.0 system.


I'm frozen at 4.2 and happy with it. the transition to glibc is gonna be
long and ugly, and I'd rather wait for redhat 5.2 before I jump in the
pool. same as I did with redhat 4.1 (4.0 was actually not bad, but only
4.2 showed signs of calming down...)