Topic: Why is SME built on old Red Hat?

[jesperhaun]

Can anyone explain why SME is built on Red Hat 7x instead of Red Hat 9 or Fedora?

And (maybee more important) why SME has to be built on this older Red Hat in the future?

[Schotty]

Just waiting for you to make a new version built on Redhat 9 .....

[MSmith]

... because Mitel thought that Red Hat 7.3 was secure and functional enough to build their product on it; Mitel chose to put their time & effort into developing new features for SME instead of re-developing the same features for each new RedHat release.  (Kind of the same issue contribs writers run into as SME evolves, yes?)

Short answer:  stable base from which to build.

[wyron]

Right, MSmith !
With a stable, secure base, you can concentrate on the important issues, instead of rushing through an eternal merry-go-round of base system upgrades.
In this context, nothing's wrong with 'old'.

[msoulier]

Can anyone explain why SME is built on Red Hat 7x instead of Red Hat 9 or Fedora?

And (maybee more important) why SME has to be built on this older Red Hat in the future?

Is there something wrong with RedHat 7.3? IMHO, it happens to be the best release they ever did.

If you'd like to help upgrade the entire base, followed by regression testing of all functionality afterwards, join devinfo and pitch in.

Mike

[shaitan]

I downloaded the wireless installer for an ADM8211 chipset from ADM's website. After unpacking their "Install_RH73_103_0304.tar.gz", I run their "install" and it complains that I don't have a Redhat 7.3 system and exits. So in someways SME diverges a little too much for this installer. What needs to be done?