[rescue] Recommended patches for old versions (why)

[Andrew Weiss]

or does anyone have the recommended complete patch set for MIPSPro 7.2?  Too
many of these patches have a lock icon on them meaning they aren't publicly
available... fie on service contract patches!... ridiculous.  I'm having
trouble compiling some things like openssh.  I was trying to make zlib 1.1.4
which worked the first time and now won't compile... minigzip test fails.  I
suppose I can re dl' the code (a clean copy).

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: <laz at moaa.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Recommended patches for old versions (why)


> on that note:
>
> anybody have patches for SunOS 4.0.1 for my Sun 2/120?
> :-)
>
> Matt
>
> >
> > "Loomis, Rip" wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm all for continuing to run *good* older versions of operating
> > > systems--but I've never met anyone who actually can defend Solaris
> > > 2.x where x<5 -- and it's not really until about Solaris 7
> > > (SunOS 5.7) that there are enough fixes and Good Things to make
> > > me happy with running it in production.
> > >
> >
> > Don't anyone to think I'm doing this in *production* ROFL.
> > This is the rescue group right?
> >
> > Just like I collect old Sun hardware, I collect old Sun software.
> > Sometimes it's fun to load up an old release just to see what
> > it was like (or how bad it was in some cases).  For the sake
> > of completeness, I'd also like the best patches for each release.
> >
> > Another reason for running old releases could be nostalgic
> > (i.e. to recreate an old environment or configuration).  I hope
> > I'm not the only one who does this :)
> >
> > As for "production" environments, there might still be
> > more 2.6 instances still in use than all other versions
> > combined (I think that was true 2 years ago). Sun4 machines
> >  can only run up to 2.4 (or sunos4 or netbsd...).  2.4 was
> > actually pretty good.
> >
> > Here's my foggy memory on the "suitablilty" of early solaris
> > releases:
> >
> > 2.0 Nope
> > 2.1 Very buggy, many drivers missing
> > 2.2 First viable production release (though still many problems)
> > 2.3 Many improvements, wide-spread adoption
> > 2.4 Solid stable release
> > 2.5 Added features (CDE on supplement disk)
> > 2.5.1 added support for U1
> > 2.6 Performance imporvements, UE support, rock solid reliablilty
> > probably the most widely deployed release ever.
> >
> > and so on.
> >
> > Am I even close?
> >
> > KL
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