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Title: Why is SME built on old Red Hat?
Post by: jesperhaun on March 05, 2004, 10:45:34 AM
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?
Title: ...
Post by: Schotty on March 05, 2004, 12:53:51 PM
Just waiting for you to make a new version built on Redhat 9 .....
Title: The long(er) answer is ...
Post by: MSmith on March 05, 2004, 01:12:54 PM
... 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.
Title: Why is SME built on old Red Hat?
Post by: wyron on March 06, 2004, 08:30:32 AM
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'.
Title: Re: Why is SME built on old Red Hat?
Post by: msoulier on March 21, 2004, 07:08:40 AM
Quote from: "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?


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
Title: So, why doesn't it identfy itself as 7.3
Post by: shaitan on March 21, 2004, 05:41:08 PM
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?