How-To for switching from DHCP to static IP

Matt Brodeur mbrodeur at NextTime.com
Tue Jul 1 12:44:09 EDT 2003


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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Kenny Donahue wrote:

> I was thinking of trying RH 9 but I heard bad things.  Are they true?

  Yes, it's all true. ;)

  Seriously though, it depends on what "bad things" you've heard.  I 
personally run RHL 9 on something like 15 systems, both workstations and 
servers.  A few of those have been on 9 since release day.  I haven't run 
into any real show stoppers, but there are a few quirks:

  - GCC 3+ is exceptionally picky about C++ code.  Stuff that compiled 
without warnings on 2.xx dies with numerous errors now.  Not a problem for 
me personally, but a cow-orker had to wrestle with it.
  - UTF-8 (Unicode).  Good idea, but right now it can be a PITA for some 
apps.
  - NPTL (Posix Threads).  This was an issue at first for some binary-only 
software, but I haven't heard any complaints recently.
  - Apache 2.0 (since you're coming from RHL 7.3/Apache 1.3).  There are a 
few configuration options that have changed, but there's a good transition 
document at apache.org
  - Sendmail MTA/MSP split in 8.12+.  Another config change that's pretty 
well documented.
  - Various other daemon config issues
  - The Red Hat Desktop.  If you were following the flame^Wdiscussions 
around the release of 8.0 you've already heard about this.  Red Hat 
changed the look of the desktop environment, but it's pretty easy to 
customize.  Almost a non-issue. 
   - Various applications have been removed.  In most cases there are
newer/better(?) replacements, and the old apps are still available 
elsewhere.  PINE and fortune are ones I'd miss if Guru Labs didn't provide 
such nice RPMs for them.


> This is a fairly new install. I was thinking about starting over
> and applying the network setup at install time.  That ALWAYS
> works.

   This might not be a bad idea, especially for a server.  I've done 
plenty of RH upgrades, but it's never quite the same as a fresh install. 

- -- 
Matt Brodeur                                                         RHCE
MBrodeur at NextTime.com                             http://www.NextTime.com

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