Ben Lutgens wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 07:12:45AM -0500, Nick B wrote: > >Also Ben... I updated my Redhat free. What are you talking about??? > > > Thier crazy online update scheme. Not sure of the details but it looks like > it's a subscription service. I hope they use the cash to buy more mirriors or > add some machines to the ftp server farm. priority.redhat.com or whatever? In theory it's supposed to be fast, because you shell out money to get priority over the leaches. From a stability standpoint, I'd rather wait until a hot new release cooled before putting it on a server (then again, I should probally wait for Win2K service pack ten, but I'm not, we'll just ignore that fact.) There are pleny of others out there hot for the new release, let them figure out the issues of upgrading. ;) In that respect the priority thing makes no sence at all, since by the time you want to install it the free mirrors will be updated and not suffering a /. like effect. On the other hand, there are people out there who may want the latest and greatest software on their workstation yesterday, and if they're willing to pay for it, go Red Hat. Way to make a buck by exploiting the impatient public. Seems like Red Hat itself has become infected with the RedHat == Linux, Linux == Red Hat syndrome, and is spreading it to new linux users, application developers, commercial developers, etc. Fortunatly this crowd recovers for that syndrome faster than Red Hat, who is trapped in a loop. Red Hat is definitly the distro of choice for windows converts, and the distro definitly reflects that. (Remember AnotherLevel?) Some parts of that are good, some aren't, most flucate inbetween. In the end they come up with a decent workstation whos packages managment works about as well as Windows. (if you go from the angle that rpm is equivlent to the Add or Remove Programs thingy) Kay...enough from me. -- Andy Zbikowski, Sys Admin | (PH) 763-428-9119 (EX:132) LTI Flexible Products, Inc. | (FAX) 763-428-9126 21801 Industrial Blvd | (PCS) 612-306-6055 Rogers, MN 55374 | (WEB) http://www.ltiflex.com -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org