[nzlug] Redhat 7.1 - why do people still use this??

[Johann Schoonees]

Patrick Connolly wrote:
> Somewhere about Wed, 28-Nov-2007 at 09:16PM +1300 (give or take),
> Simon Bridge wrote:
> 
> |> I still see support requests for RH7.1 through 9.
> |> I always respond with: *upgrade you ninny*.
> |> 
> |> I'm having trouble coming up with a compelling reason to stay with this
> |> thing... and it seems it is always RH products that seem to hang about
> |> like this. I mean - it's not as if it's pleasant to use!
> 
> Maybe not 7.1 but RH7.3 was rather nice.  It still used Gnome 1.4
> before it was gutted to become Gnome 2.x.  I've been a KDE man since
> then.  
> 
> Of course, that's probably not the reason here, but to some extent, I
> can see why people don't want to change something that seems to be
> working fine.  (notice "seems" to be working).

There are sometimes compelling reasons for sticking with something that 
does the job.  Six years ago we started building a new type of 3D 
scanner which contains a fairly large amount of embedded software.  It 
needed some quite sophisticated C++ (geometric algebra, etc.) running as 
CSP, and we wanted the prototypes to run on exactly the same platforms 
as our desktop environments, to simplify life.  I can develop and build 
at my desk, and rlogin into one of the 10 processor boards in the 
prototype to exercise new daemons for the cameras and laser line 
scanners without leaving my chair.  Which is why I am typing this email 
under Fedora Core 2.  Not as old as RH7.1, but almost.  An OS upgrade 
would be a PITA though it could be done if we really had to, and so far 
we haven't had to.  It's all behind firewalls of course, to keep you 
nosy parkers out of my hardware. :-)

Johann

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