Left behind by YDL?

[Steven J. Norton]

Eddie (and all): 

Thanks for the tip, and for the instruction sheet. I'm very interested,
though I'm a bit wary of trying this on my production server. Maybe if I get
another machine up and running....

Regarding updates, my main issue is keeping up-to-date with security issues
and critical new features in server software without having to roll it
myself too often. Nessus insists, for instance, that I have older and less
secure versions of some packages, but updates are not readily available (ie
pre-packaged) for PPC. So what is my best option:

A) Stick with YDL and hope that v4 comes with the latest stuff (does it?)
and will continue to be actively upgraded;
B) Try MacOSX Server and hope that Apple provides timely updates (what's
their record like?);
C) Go to the dark(er) side and run Linux on x86 hardware (most places seem
to have rpms for that platform available)?

Any thoughts appreciated.

  -- Steve

on 11/17/04 8:09 AM, Eddie Bindt wrote:

> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:02:55 +0100 (CET)
> From: Eddie Bindt <eddieb at xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: Left behind by YDL?
> 
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Steven J. Norton wrote:
> 
> Steve, and others,
> 
> Allthough YDL4 officially does not support OldWorld Hardware, I can
> garantee you that it runs fine.
> I even wrote an update howto, to do an yum update and get YDL4 up and
> running on the ANS (and that is *really* OldWorld)...
> 
> see http://www.shiner.info/?manuals/ANS-from-3-to-4.html for upgrade
> instructions.
> 
> This upgrading was done on several different types of OldWorld machines
> (8500/9600/etc) ..
> 
> Eddie
> -- 
> Eddie Bindt