Re: Red hat
From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 10/10/05
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:51:52 +0200
John wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> I used to run RedHat Linux 7.1 for quite some time and then got away
> from it for a few years.
> I just put together a P III 500 with 320 mb's of ram.
> I loaded the old version of RedHat7.1 and started playing around.
> Good habits don't go away, they just go to sleep for a while.
> Anyway I prefer Gnome to KDE and see that there is a much new version
> of Gnome out.
RedHat 7.1 is discontinued and is quite unsecure, you should upgrade to at
least RedHat 7.3 or RedHat 9 (both are still supported by fedoralegacy.org),
or you can go for the latest version Fedora Core 4.
RedHat 7.x uses Gnome while RadHat 8 and later uses something called Gnome2,
those aren't the same things even if they share the same name.
> My question is will this new version run on RedHat7.1?
If you want to use Gnome2 then you need to upgrade to RedHat 9 (RedHat 8 has
been discontinued and is unsecure to use) or later, there aren't much point in
trying to compile Gnome2 for older versions of RedHat as it's a big job and
there is no good documentation about dependencies, but if you want to do it,
it's possible but will take a lot of tries and errors, so it's not worth the
trouble to compile it for an unsecure version of RedHat and I would say it's
not worth to compile it for RedHat 7.3 (I have done that with an early version
of Gnome2).
> Also what happened to RedHat.
> It seems that they have gone away from the home user and are going
> after the big bucks.
RedHat decided to call the home user version of RedHat for Fedora and that can
be found at fedora.redhat.com, so with other words it's not much more than a
name change.
//Aho
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