Re: any news of a new RH release?

[Daniel David Benson <dan spoontail com>]

Sorry to jump in on this conversation, but these are some very
interesting points.  Out of curiosity do any of the other
Linux distributions use Kickstart or something similar?

I too share many of the frustrations with Redhat's release
cycle, but Redhat has to do what Redhat has to do.

Thanks!

-Dan


On Tue, 20 May 2003, John wrote:

> On Fri, 16 May 2003, John Beamon wrote:
>
> > This is a tiny bit of a tangent, but it's relevant for me right now,
> > sitting at my desk in THIS project.  I'm kickstarting a Dell PE1650, and
> > they come with e1000 gigabit ethernet cards, which are not supported in
> > the version of bootnet.img that I'm using.  Like so many others, I'm
> > still rolling servers on 7.3 because it's proven, lightweight, and
> > stable by comparison.  Many of us did not upgrade our servers to 8
> > because we were waiting for "8.1", which would fix a large percentage of
> > 8's inevitable bugs.  Smart people don't upgrade production to a "dot-0"
> > release.
> >
> > I know that the entire kickstart system has been rewritten.  XML, cd iso
> > images instead of floppies, the works.  Today, May 16, I'm still
> > tweaking my knowledge of 7.3.  By the end of the year, I plan on rolling
> > our enterprise up to 9.x, whatever release number is stable at the time.
>
> I firmly believe there will not be a 9.x: there is 9 and _not_ 9.0. Its
> successor, I predict, will be 10.
>
> If you want the stablility you have been accustomed to in 7.3 then you
> must pay for one of the ES offering that's not yet available, or discard
> your RH knowledge and adopt another distribution.
>
>
> A few on valhalla-list have avowed their intention to move to Debian and
> I myself am writing this on a Debian/Woody system with some unoffical
> upgrades - KDE 3.1.1, XFree86 4.3.
>
> It comes with pretty much the same UI I've been using for years on RHL,
> unlike the radical redesign on RHL 8.0.
>
>
>
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