Is my old RedHat computer doomed?
Von: Kevin Buzzard (buzzard@removethisbit.ic.ac.uk) [Profil]
Datum: 26.07.2008 12:11
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Newsgroup: uk.comp.os.linux
Datum: 26.07.2008 12:11
Message-ID: <g6et8a$smm$1@north.jnrs.ja.net>
Newsgroup: uk.comp.os.linux
Cluttering up my bedroom is an 8-year-old laptop with 192 megs of RAM (yeah, it was pretty state of the art at the time) and a 6 gig hard drive. It has Redhat 8.0 installed on it and it's a fine machine: it is super-super stable and although it can't quite handle Firefox 2 it's the machine I use every morning to e.g. read the news before I get up, and I regularly ssh to other machines from it to read mail etc. I have been loathe to change the OS---why fix it if it ain't broke? Upgrading from RH7 to RH8 in 2002 already cost me a lot in terms of responsiveness. But now I am a bit concerned that it probably *is* broke, and quite seriously broke, because of the recent DNS resolving issue thing and reports yesterday that good sploits are now circulating in the wild. I'm not so sure that RedHat are going to come up with a security patch for an old RH8 machine. On the other hand I am concerned that any major OS upgrade is going to do for the machine completely. Do people have any advice (other than "buy a new machine")? Can I patch the nameserver issue myself somehow [note that *everything* is old: gcc 3.2, perl 5.8.0, etc etc]? If I attempt to install a new OS am I likely to get a machine that barely moves? etc etc. Kevin[ Auf dieses Posting antworten ]