On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:53, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > Likewise it drives me nuts that people downloading an iso and > > installing it today still get that $release because no one > > bothers to roll a new image. Must not be that important > > after all... > > Rerolling an ISO has a number of problems. From increased load on > mirrors, to issues like the installer needing to be updated for > each release, additional testing etc. I'm not convinced that having people continue to download outdated isos and then have to pull down a massive amount of updates is really less load than it would be to let them install something current in the first place. > It's not as simple as 'run some script, and out pops a new iso'. Interesting... I always install from the k12ltsp distribution instead of a straight fedora because it is usually rebuilt with current updates. And I think that's a one man show. I always assumed the iso build was scripted. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
