[luau] Startup Disk for 7.2

[Dean Fujioka]

I'd like help at some point, but I'm still on 7.2 as Synchronics 
Counterpoint does not yet support RHat 7.3, or rather the use of unix 
binaries has not yet been outlined for 7.3.  Until then, I think for the 
sake of Price Busters, we'll be on 7.2
dean

Warren Togami wrote:

>I do agree that Red Hat 7.2 + all Errata packages is very stable and usable,
>but it takes a while to upgrade.  Do you normally apply all updates?  It is
>very easy with Red Hat Network and up2date.
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>Red Hat 7.3 has a much newer kernel that supports more hardware, KDE 3.0.0
>which is a big improvement over KDE 2.2.2, and also hundreds of other bug
>fixes over Red Hat 7.2.  Linuxconf was removed because it is a poorly
>written and unreliable tool.  Often it becomes unusable and freezes for
>seemingly no reason if you have modified configs (like networking) either
>manually or with other tools.  Notice that even Mandrake re-wrote all the
>tools within Linuxconf within their new DrakConf.  I would suspect that
>Linuxconf is slated for removal from Mandrake too.
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>If you REALLY want Linuxconf you can install the Linuxconf packages from Red
>Hat 7.2, or from the official Linuxconf site:
>http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf
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>Red Hat removed Linuxconf because it was a constant nightmare of bugs that
>were unsupportable because it is so poorly designed.  They however made a
>mistake in replacing it with a set of poorly organized tools that are
>difficult to find, however functional.  I have criticized them on this
>point, and I hope that they will fix this by the next (possibly 8.0)
>version.  Mandrake's DrakConf or SuSE's YaST model is very good by
>comparison.
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>Ultimately you shouldn't need to rely on GUI or TUI config tools.  You
>become a better administrator if you learn about manually editing the text
>config files, because your knowledge transfers to other Linux, BSD and Unix
>systems which may have different configuration tools.  Your overall
>understanding of how the system works too, meaning quicker diagnosis of
>problems that you may encounter down the line.
>
>This being said, I am willing to help anyone learn these skills.  Please ask
>if you would like to learn about 7.3 (without Linuxconf) ways of configuring
>certain things.  I'll write about the replacement config tools, and manual
>config editing.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan George" <LinuxDan at hawaii.rr.com>
>To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 3:38 PM
>Subject: Re: [luau] Startup Disk for 7.2
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>>Warren
>>             What is there to like about 7.3?  Its displacing all the
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>great
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>>Linux commands from the command line interface like Linuxconf.  In class
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>our
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>>instructor criticized 7.3 and instead of instructing in 7.3 he used 7.2.
>>But unfortuneately the disk copy I have is bad of 7.2 and they dont sell
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>it
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>>anymore at CompUSA.
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>>Dan
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