[ale] red hat naming

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Sat Jun 28 22:32:28 EDT 2008


On Sat June 28 2008, Jim Kinney wrote:
> That a system is out there with a pile of security holes and it needs to be
> replaced/upgraded immediately. If for bazillion-year old application
> reasons it can't be  upgraded, it will need to be severely firewalled and
> access limited for security reasons.
>
most of these systems are in corporate offices, behind firewalls.. in some 
places they won't even let me connect my laptop into their system ( I have no 
problem with that) and in others, they let me get internet access, but NOT in 
their network..

> You can most likely run bazillion-year old app on a RedHat EL v.3. There
> are *compat libs that let older things run well.

our app is certified to run on RHEL 4.5 NOW, but  I started putting it on RHEL 
3 update 4 2 years ago..


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Paul Cartwright
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