4.8 or 5.0 ?

[Stefan Cars]

My reason for installing 5.0 is that we will probably want to upgrade to 
5.1 or maybe 5.2 when they arrive and I think that upgrading 5.0->5.2 is 
easier than 4.8->5.2. ?

/ Stefan

William Palfreman wrote:

>On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Stefan Cars wrote:
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>>Hi!
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>>We are installing some new servers in our company and I'm thinking of
>>installing 5.0 on them. What do you people think ? Is that to be too
>>brave ?
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>I did that once with Linux, between 2.2.19 and 2.4.2/3.  When my boss
>realised what I had done I nearly got fired.  The experience has made me
>morbidly afraid of doing other peoples beta testing for them in a
>production environment, even if it seems fine in on my workstation and
>on test servers.  I now give it about to 18 months before testing new
>major versions.  Almost the only criteria I use is whether what I am
>doing is so out of date that there is no longer a useful user base,
>performance is worse and bugs are going unfixed.
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>Do you have any reason to believe 4.8 won't work?
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>Bill.
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