Re: Buying Alphas (was Re: blinding age)

Michael Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:51:33 -0800 (AKDT)


On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Wes Bauske wrote:

> do a release. I still see June or so as the earliest to look at
> Debian as a true alternative to RH. And as I said, I'll look at
> it when it's available to see whether it is more useful than RH
> which I currently run on my systems. (RH4.2, not 5.0. I tend to
> stay one step back from the bleeding edge)

I made that decision (to stay with 4.2) with my Intel boxes because of the
switch from libc 5.3 -> glibc 2.0, but I would've thought the impact on
Alpha from moving from glibc 1.99 -> glibc 2.0 would be less. Is that not
the case?

I'm really interested in this because I've been thinking about updating my
Alpha from RH 4.2 to RH 5.0 for awhile now.

Mike

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