Re: [SLUG] Redhat ain't old (was OO Writer Question)

From: Brad Smith (brad_stephenssmith@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 17:16:03 EDT


Did up2date not reconcile the dependancies for you?

--- Eric Jahn <eric@ejahn.net> wrote:
> In defense of Redhat, they had Mozilla 1.4 in their Redhat Network
> before Mozilla 1.4 was marked stable in Gentoo's portage. I think
> Redhat is doing a great job of staying current. I no longer use Redhat
> because I just find it hard to reconcile RPM dependency issues.
>
>
> On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 16:05, Brad Smith wrote:
> > > That of course brings up the subject of Red Hat, Mandrake, and SuSE
> > > Enterprise. Personally I have a hard time believing that anyone would pay
> > > that much for a obsolete system. Obsolete did you say. YES. It may not be
> > > obsolete the day they compile it but it definitely is not up to date the next
> > > day so what else would you call it after 2 to 3 years; the expected time
> > > before they plan on issuing update.
> >
> >
> > ...
> >
> > huh?
> >
> > Are you saying that RH, Suse, etc's Enterprise products only release updates every 2-3 years?
> If
> > so, I think you're mistaken, but I don't want to launch into a big explaination if I
> > 've just misunderstood you.
> >
> > Short version: The reason (for example) Red Hat Adv Server looks like RH 7.2 is because it is
> an
> > enhanced version of the distribution based on software that has been around the block long
> enough
> > to have had all the kinks worked out. Bug fixes, security fixes and feature updates are
> released
> > regularly, though, so it stays up to date in all the ways that count.
> >
> > --Brad
>



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