[wellylug] Linux Server version

[Cliff Pratt]

John Durham wrote:
> Cliff Pratt wrote:
>> John Durham wrote:
>>> Cliff Pratt wrote:
>>>> John,
>>>>
>>>> You appear to actually be running Dapper Drake which is 6.06.
>>>>
>>> Never heard of it. What makes you think so? Note: There have been 
>>> numerous updates downloaded since the original install. I got the 
>>> version off the original CD.
>>>
>> ?? Ah, 'www.modecideas.com' is not the same as 'modecideas.com', is 
>> it! Besides, I misread the headers.
> Not quite. My site responds to both.
>>
>> Ubuntu 4.10 is  very old:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warty_Warthog
>>
>> It is not supported, hence there will be no more patches for it.
>>
> So you are really saying when it updates it becomes a differently named 
> version? Interesting, but probably not too significant.
> Just another flavour to try.
> 
No, I am saying that you will get no bug or security patches for it. 
It's like Windows 98/Windows 2000/Windows XP. While the prior versions 
are supported for a while, they will not be supported for ever.

For instance your Apache is version 2.0.50, while the current version 
(in Dapper Drake 6.06) is 2.0.55, your mod_Perl is 1.99 while the Dapper 
version is 2.0.2, your Perl is 5.8.4 while Dapper has 5.8.7. and your 
php is 4.3.8 and the Dapper one is 4.4.4.

You *should* upgrade, though how you do it is debatable. As with Windows 
things may break in an upgrade.

It *is* significant.

Cheers,

Cliff