Re: I can't upgrade to PostgreSQL 7.4 in RedHat 9.0

From: Stephen Robert Norris <srn(at)commsecure(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
Cc: Manuel Tejada <mantemu(at)terra(dot)com(dot)pe>, Ericson Smith <eric(at)did-it(dot)com>, Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: I can't upgrade to PostgreSQL 7.4 in RedHat 9.0
Date: 2004-02-02 11:42:42
Message-ID: 1075722162.30845.5.camel@chinstrap
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On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 22:11, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:22:29PM +1100, Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 13:04, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:50:47PM -0500, Manuel Tejada wrote:
> > >
> > > > By the way, what does mean RHEL3?
> > >
> > > "Red Hat Entreprise Linux", a commercial Linux distribution (meaning you
> > > shouldn't use it unless you pay for it).
> >
> > No, it means you won't get support unless you pay for it, and if you get
> > support for a single machine in your organisation using RHEL, you must
> > get support for all of them.
>
> It's exactly the same thing. Using an unsupported operating system is
> only a matter of time before some cracker 0wnz j00. Of course, you
> could build your own security updates, but it will be a very expensive
> thing to do. In this situation one should really consider switching to
> another distribution, like, say, White Box (which is built from the
> SRPMs of RHEL), or any other of the big ones. Or go with some *BSD.

Huh? Or just use Fedora Core, which is what the consumer grade RedHat
distro has become...

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