New distro question

[Tom Buskey]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:

> "Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> writes:
>
> >> I believe RHEL3 U9 was the last full "active development" release
> >
> > Unfortunately, the bug in question was apparently introduced
> > with the U8 release which I understand was supposed to be the
> > "final" one, but it's bad enough that I'd suspect there'll be a
> > "final-and-this-time-we-really-mean-it-no-fooling" U10 release. ;->
>
> Ahh, this reminds me when Sun said, "Sun OS 4.1 is dead".
> "No, wait, we really need to fix something.  Here's 4.1.1."
> "No, wait, we really need to fix something.  Here's 4.1.2."
> "No, wait, we really need to fix something.  Here's 4.1.3. And This time
> we really mean it!"
>
> "Oh, wait, sorry, we forgot something.  Here's 4.1.3_u1.  But this is it!"
>
> "Damn, all right, here's 4.1.3_u1a.  But we're serious - Okay,
> 4.1.4_u1b, but that's it!"
>
> "Fine, Here's 4.1.4, We're done!  Move over to Solaris 2.3, er, 4, I mean
> 5..."


Paul, a friend of ours had to get a SunOS system going last fall.  He had
spare Sparc 20s, a stack of disks and a Sun support contract.  He ended up
having to buy a disk on eBay.  And Sun had an update for him for SunOS.  His
customers require 15 years of support so he has to keep that system around
for another 15 years :-(
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