RE: [Exim] Has anyone tried Red-Hat 8 yet?

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 15:56, Jeff Hahn wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Terry Shows wrote:
>
> > I guess that is my question. I have a contract to set up a new mail server
> > for a client, and am not interested in living through any nightmares if I
> > don't have to.
> >
>
> The general rule for avoiding nightmares is to avoid the .0 release of
> anything. The Microsoft corollary is avoid until Service Pack 1 (if
> you're unable to avoid it forever)
>
> I realize that there supposedly have been huge advances in software
> testing and debugging, but I don't see it! I think this rule applies even
> more now in the age of "gotta get some additional revenue for the third
> quarter" commercial software.

While this rule of thumb may have applied to past Red Hat .0 releases,
the 8.0 release looks to be pretty solid. Personally it feels like a .1
release to me. They had 3 separate beta releases, plus numerous updates
to the betas. That being said, if you didn't use the betas you'll want
to put 8.0 in your test lab for a while until you're used to the
caveats, because there's a LOT of new & changed things in 8.0.

Jeff