[luau] Redhat 9.0 and video woes

[Matthew John Darnell]

> 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 agree, when I say dot release I mean, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2 etc

> 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.

I think its a smart move.  They remain open source, gain the help and give
back to the community, and are still able to pay their employees so they can
eat and keep a roof over their head.

> 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?

I have not subscribed to those lists, but I run the up2date tool and it
notifies me when there is a package needed to install.

My comment about double speak was a reference that they can pour more time
and effort into R&D by not haveing dot releases.  I have loaded evey version
of Red Hat since 6.0 and this is the first time I have experienced a problem
with basic setup using standard hardware.

-Matt