Subj : Re: Updating or not... that's the question!!! :-)
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Lenard
Date : Mon Aug 30 2004 04:57 pm

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:59:19 +0000, Jean Cote wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using Redhat 8.0 (2.4.20-28.8) everyday at work for more than a year
> now. I'm happy with it. I have vmware install for Window$2000 and
> QNX/Neutrino. I'm wondering if I should update my system or not. Am I
> obsolete with this setup and should I update to Fedora or another distro
> like suse, Mandrake or any other one?

If your happy then stay with what you got. No you are not quite obsolete
yet, RHL8.0 is somewhat old, but it is still useful and while not
supported by Red Hat some updates have been make (suspended now) at;

http://fedoralegacy.org/

If you decide to upgrade then any of the distro's you mentioned are just
fine. But you will need to at least make backups of everything of
importance; settings, personal data and whatever else you find to be
important. Plan, test and execute this before upgrading.


> My main use is for developing applications in C or C++ with libraries
> like fltk, MesaGL 6.0, glut 3.7, linpack and more. I mostly use g++
> compiler. I use vmware to compile my applications under Window$2000 and
> QNX/Neutrino. So vmware must still works with the new distro/update.

Vmware works just fine with any of the new distro's you might want to
download the update (get the one latest available) for vmware and patch
before starting your vmware configuration;

http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/

The current version available is; vmware-any-any-update82.tar.gz

> What do you think I should do: update or not? Am I missing new stuff by
> not updating or changing to a new distro? Should I stay with Redhat 8.0?

The choice to update/change is yours to make, I would at least upgrade to
a distro that supports/uses the 2.6 series kernel (all of the latest
distro's you mentioned do so). I'm currently running FC2 (custom 2.6.8.1
kernel) using VMwareWorkstation-3.2.0-2230 (vmware-any-any-update81) with
Windows 2000 SP4 as the guest OS with no problems.



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