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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:59:52PM -0800, Aviram Carmi wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Got three questions related to upgrading/installing RHEL4:
>
> Would you upgrade an existing RHEL3 to RHEL4 now? or wait a while for
> it to stabilize?
Upgrade - no. Unless there's something specific in RHEL4 that you can't
get in RHEL3, keep running what you have.
> If you had a brand new server, would you install RHEL3 and later
> upgrade to RHEL4? or would you install RHEL4? now? wait a while?
I look at those on a case-by-case basis. I've just started the install
of another RHEL3 system but I've got 4 servers coming in the next week
or two that will run RHEL4. The RHEL3 system is SAN-connected and I'm
trying to keep it up at the same rev level as a sister system. The
RHEL4 systems are fairly specific handling mostly mail relaying and a
couple of internal applications. They're replacing systems that are
currently running 6.1 and 6.2.
> If I should wait before installing RHEL4, how long? till Update 1?
It depends on what you need it to do. If RHEL3 offers you everything
you need, you might wait until after Update 1. I expect some of the SAN
connectivity issues to drag on past Update 1 because of the redesign of
the multipathing stuff.
> I can wait since I really only need two linux boxes, and my old one,
> a 933Mhz PIII which is running RH 7.3 is doing just fine, I got the
> new server just because I got a great deal from Dell: dual capable
> 3.0Mhz Xeon with the 64bit EM64T 800fsb, two 1GB DDR2, and two 160GB
> Serial ATA drives, for only $800, free shipping, I just could not
> resist...
That is a good deal. I don't know if you can instal RHEL3 on SATA
drives though so that could be one reason to go to RHEL4. Also, the 2.6
kernel handles hyperthreaded CPUs more efficiently than the 2.4 kernel.
The general theory is to decide what you're actually going to run on the
system and then work backwards from there. The answer is going to be
quite a bit different if you're building a desktop with leading-edge
multivideo apps versus a simple mail relay server.
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