[luau] Redhat 9.0 and video woes

[Vince Hoang]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 12:20:38PM -1000, Matthew John Darnell wrote: 
> Their stance seems a lot of double speak. In the past a dot
> release meant smaller but significant improvements. A rose by
> anyother name....

Can you list particular versions that this applies to? From my
vantage point, the .0 releases have always been significant, with
the later dot releases as mostly bug fixes.

I saw Red Hat be criticized by the business community for being a
moving target, while at the same time not having the latest and
greatest packages. Debian and FreeBSD has been doing this for
years (stable/testing/unstable and release/stable/current).

Although I think their naming convention is a bit odd (it is more
of a stable than advanced in my book), I am very glad that they
decided to actually have different products aimed at different
types of users. When I learned of this, I thought "it's about
time". I do think these decisions will increase the penetration
of Red Hat Linux in the business community.

For the folks using Red Hat but not paying for RHN, how and how
often are you watching for updates? Are you downloading updates
nightly via alternative means? Have you subscribed to Bugtraq and
Red Hat's security mailing list? If no to any of these, is this
an acceptable risk within your network?

-Vince