| Ask Linux.com: Historical Linux, hardware for tomorrow |
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由 yangyi 于 2009-04-13 22:59:17 提供 |
It's all about bipartisanship and unity in this week's roll call for the Linux.com forums. Old distro and new distro coming together, peripheral and computer learning how to work as one, and, just as the framers intended, a run-off between several distinguished "absentee answer" questions. This ain't your father's Linux distro (but that is still available)The first face-off has to do with old Linux distributions. Normally, forum readers are concerned with the latest and greatest, but occasionally circumstances require working with a relic. User prague14 wrote in to ask for advice with what he admitted was a peculiar task: take a running instance of Red Hat 7.3 and update it to a modern release without doing an erase-and-reinstall. "I have been trying to figure out how to best approach this. I know, in theory, it's possible. But where do you start? Should I compile the core utils and a new kernel like you do in Linux From Scratch and try to copy new binaries over to the old OS? ... Perhaps for good reason, there's not a whole lot in the HOWTO realm. :)" Khabi strongly advised against trying such an upgrade by hand, warning "you're more likely to break it horribly than to get it right." He proposed two possibilities: recompiling from source, and cataloging the RPMs and hunting down the modern equivalents in Fedora. Either way, he concluded, a lot of time will be required squashing bugs. But perhaps prague14 could learn from user MRD's question. A student studying human-computer interaction, MRD asked where to find old versions of Linux distributions in order to study changes to the GUI. ...... Please access the below link to view the full content. Original link: http://www.linux.com/feature/152... |
