FYI RedHat has released the beta of its next distro a few days ago the distro will be called LIMBO these are some of the components - the latest desktop technology - gcc-3.1 - Mozilla 1.0+ - OpenOffice 1.0 - and much much more
u can get the hot steamy release from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/limbo/ On Saturday 06 July 2002 01:06, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002, Amir Tal wrote about "Re: KDE 3.0.2 is out, but...": > > On Friday 05 July 2002 20:56, you wrote: > > > > RH will always release only security updates for kde, or major releases. > > i wonder when (or if) thats ever gonna change...? > > Should it? Redhat makes a release every 6 months. This means that on > average, the software you're using (if you upgrade Redhat every 6 months) > is 3 months old. Is that really so terrible? Should Redhat be worried that > users will leave it because of the "untimeliness" of their feature updates? > > I really doubt it. A handful of users on this list consider using 3-month > old versions of KDE a faux-pas, and when a third-version-digit change in > KDE is release, they run to get it. But most users (even most power-users) > are satisfied with Redhat's update rate. Moreover, most of the Redhat users > I know haven't even switched to Redhat 7.3 yet: I know people using Redhat > 7.2, 7.1, and even 6.2, and they don't seem to be bothered by the fact that > they are using 6 month to 2 year old software... > > So if Redhat has to allocate their resources, between preparing (and > testing) a 0.0.1 version-increment RPM for KDE, and between preparing for > their next major release (that I am guessing will hit beta in around 3 > months), I think the reasoning behind their choice is clear. > > P.S. Redhat's "rawhide" site sometimes has updated RPMs, with updates that > are not necessarily security-related. Of course, these RPMs are unsupported > and less tested than the ones in the official releases. -- Barak Kaufman Customer Support Manager Oz-Tech Information Systems ================================================================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]
