Nadav Har'El wrote: > Newbies should not care about upgrading individual packages. They would > just get the latest distribution (e.g., Redhat is released every 6 months) > and install/upgrade it. Upgrading redhat is an almost trivial operation: > you still the CD-ROM in, choose "upgrade", and it automatically upgrades > all the packages you already had (adding new stuff that you'll need) - > it's an almost foolproof, newbie-friendly operation.
The problem with doing that is that each new release of Red Hat is problematic. 7.0 begat "7.0" respin and about 80meg of updates. 7.1 needed about the same. At last count my 7.2 system needed almost 150 meg of updates, not counting GCC 3, which I installed manualy as some things will compile with it and others will not. Some things were not documented with the 7.2 bugs, such as the problem with tar, which was fixed by the tar developers, but not by Red Hat (see the linux-il archive for a description). AMD, which only worked after a recompile. and others. Geoff -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson Bloomberg L.P., BFM (Israel) 2 hours ahead of London, 7 hours ahead of New York. Tel: 972-(0)3-754-1158 Fax 972-(0)3-754-1236 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
