Kelly Miller wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
That should be the upstream author's designation, shouldn't it? Does
the mozilla group still even admit that firefox 1.5 exists? What
about the beta dovecot that was shipped in RHEL4 and never updated to
the release version? Complaints about the old bugs kept showing up in
the upstream mailing list years after the stable release, confusing
everyone.
Wait, wait, wait. You were complaining about Fedora being too far ahead
and being unstable, and now you're knocking RHEL for being too far
behind? What exactly do you want?
I'm starting to think that the guys who said you simply want a distro
custom-tailored to your exact specs are right. What would satisfy you,
a distro with all the latest versions that doesn't have any bugs in it
or something?
If that's really what he wants, he can have it mow:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
;)
I've actually gone through the project a couple time (first time was
actually on a PPC - using Yellow Dog as the initial OS) - I probably
should again at some point, it's a great learning (and re-learning)
experience, though it is too time consuming to keep it up to patch level
for normal use for any length of time.
If he really wants RHEL/CentOS with FireFox/Thunderbird 2 - I'll give a
shameless plug:
http://www.pennywasted.info/centos/yjl.php
I have a small repo dedicated just for FireFox/Thunderbird updates to
CentOS 5.x (FireFox and Thunderbird are rebuilds of F8 src.rpm's - it
also has rebuilds of the two RHEL/CentOS rpm's that break due to
gecko-libs change)
Please note - FireFox 2 is a little wonky on my low memory machines (384
MB laptop and 512MB desktop) it crashes a lot - the binary tarball
release from Mozilla is much more stable (but because it is built
against a different libstdc++ than icedtea, the icedtea java plugin
doesn't load in their release)
On my 2GB x86_64 machine I haven't experienced crashing. Me thinks the
crashing on the low memory x86 is caused by a memory leak that my higher
mem machine can handle better, but I haven't fully investigated.
Thunderbird 2 works great on low mem machines - other than it can't read
local system mail. But that's what alpine in EPEL is for.
