On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, David Cary Hart wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:30:57PM -0500, jim lawrence wrote: > > > just for curiosity sake, i went to check the date of the ISO for DL > > from redhats site > > > > [ ] FC3-i386-disc1.iso 03-Nov-2004 17:05 617M > > [ ] FC3-i386-disc2.iso 03-Nov-2004 17:07 638M > > [ ] FC3-i386-disc3.iso 03-Nov-2004 17:08 637M > > [ ] FC3-i386-disc4.iso 03-Nov-2004 17:10 386M > > [ ] FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso 03-Nov-2004 16:59 76M > > [ ] MD5SUM 03-Nov-2004 18:00 791 > > > > > Why would i want to DL these and then do 300 + updates after a > > install, why doesn't these ISO's get updated every month? > > Are you volunteering to compile and test interim distributions? more to the point, if they *were* updated every month, then someone would ask why it wasn't every two weeks? and if every two weeks, then why not weekly? i assume you can see where this is going. it's not worth the trouble. that's what "yum update" is for. rday