Just airing an issue and looking for opinions.. I have been installing Linux since 1996.. I have installed Red Hat 4.2 and 5. now recently 7.2.. I have primarily stayed with Caldera and SuSe installs. During the month of April I decided to try Red Hat again for a notebook install. The install went well but I had some KDE logout/Crash issues. Tech support suggested an update with Up2Date agent. I had never tried this auto approach. So, I signed onto to the Network, my ( new 7.2) install was inspected and 182 packages were suggested to be updated, total 240 megabytes. I fainted!! Well if I had not been having problems (crashes) I might not have for gone the download but..... So, 40 hrs later I was updated.... The machine's crash problems continue but not at every logout : ^(..
However, I emailed Red Hat management and complained that a new purchase should not require so many corrections and offered to purchase update CDs. They replied that the updates were to keep current for security and to burn my own CDs. Truth is only about 30 megs were pertinent to security, 200 megs were updates/broken code and I can't burn my own CDs. Are other users accustomed to large updates or do they simply wait for a new version??? And are others interested in emailing RH management to request they offer update CDs. Comments Please.. No Flames :^) Bob _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
