Am 23.05.2013 um 19:23 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu>:
On 23 May 2013, at 19:15, Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> wrote:
Am 23.05.2013 um 18:41 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu>:
BTW, 8.04 expired just 2 weeks ago, and Pharo 2.0 was released before that ;-)
The LTS support expired two weeks ago. LTS does mostly include security fixes not kernel backports. So installing your 08.04 on a modern machine might not work. And installing the newest virtual machine inside 08.04. might not work either. You should stay with old stuff :)
Norbert
I feel old ;-)
No seriously, it is really strange how these things evolve: one day you install a production machine and then you are happy that it keeps on running fine for months and months and then years and years, and then suddenly you no longer dare to upgrade or reboot it. Especially for systems that are required to run 24/7/365.
I know this feeling so well, too. I try not to run those things for too long. We virtualized most things in OS instances. So we can move to a new hardware every couple of years and keep all old OS instances as they are. They are just copied over.
From time to time I create a modern OS instance and slowly migrate stuff from the old into the new environment. If I feel confident I switch. I could leave the machines just running. But that striked me some times already in my life. In times were you are really busy and you have a lot of balls in the air the old hardware will break. And what do you do then? Even restoring a full backup on a new machine doesn't need to go smooth. It is real pain. So it is IMHO always better to upgrade steadily when you find time instead in panicking times.
Norbert