On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: >> Huh? How is this ANY different from ANY previous release of Red >> Hat Linux in any way? Red Hat Linux beta releases have ALWAYS >> been created from a snapshot of Rawhide. That is by definition, >> what a Beta is in the first place. > >I know. (Been using RH since 4.2.) I think that you mistook >my praise for criticism. Sorry, I understood you ok, I was more commenting on what the article was saying... it just appeared directed at you, but was directed to the not-present-person who you were paraphrasing. ;o) >> Absolutely nothing has changed in this respect whatsoever, other >> than that hundreds and hundreds of people have for years now >> requested that rawhide be also available via RHN, and now we've >> made it also available via RHN. > >And that was my point. In previous betas, we'd duly install from >the isos, selectively updating packages that were of special interest >to us, or especially broken, by grabbing the latest from Rawhide (and >endure the dependency horrors that that sometimes entailed). > >This time around, with yum repositories, and now up2date, keeping up >with rawhide was trivial, and as a consequence, I'm guessing that many >more people did so. My point was that running the most bleeding-edge >configuration available was remarkably stable throughout the beta >series. I agree, I was more preaching to the choir, of whom you are part of, rather than disagreeing with you. ;o) It just didn't come out that way perhaps. >So I think we are in vigorous agreement: kudos to Red Hat engineering! Thanks, agreed. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
