a crackpot idea i had

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:07:14PM -0700, Aaron Grewell wrote:
>>From a stability standpoint 1.2 and 1.3 totally rocked.  It bugged me
>that the glibc issues made my boxes totally incompatible with everyone
>else's, but judging from the wailing RH users were doing about the early
>glibc2 releases I'm really glad I missed that evilness.

I didn't forget about 1.2 and 1.3, but was commenting only on the more
recent versions.  We still have a couple of 1.3 systems in production (with
appropriate security patches of course), and they rarely give us any
problems.  In point of fact, ftp.celestial.com is running COL 1.3, and
probably will until I decide whether to move it and the other services to a
Caldera 3.1.1 or a freebsd 4.5 system.  It's been chugging happily along at
least since 9/2/1998 without a significant hiccup.

Bill
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