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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:11:52 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>
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Subject: Re: Future of Kernel tree 2.0 ............
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Hi,

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> > Is there any reason at all to use 2.0 instead of 2.2?
> 
> On a new system probably not .. on an old system however the effort needed
> to upgrade all of the related utilities just isn't worth it.

I think one always gets one's environment tuned to fit himself. (At least 
I do.) I still have some 2.0 machines running, and they're running fine. 
They ran fine since Adam, and will still run fine as long as 2.0 is 
maintained. I can run them without too much administration effort (this is 
cool, since they're about 100 miles away...)

When I have them administrated, I always get this comfortable feeling, 
because the most of it is done by large scripts which check input and 
compute the output by themselves. If I dropped e.g. the old firewalling 
style, I'd have to change ~60% of my scripts to the new firewalling style.

I think this is a good reason not to upgrade to a so-called "recent" 
kernel on those boxes.

							Regards,
							Thunder
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