You have severn + the updates which is the latest beta for the next release
of Red Hat Linux. I doubt that at this point anyone can tell you exactly
what b2 will look like. In fact I am beginning to wonder if there will be a b2
since it is just as easy to install severn and update from up2date or rawhide.
I do not really see the point of going through the trouble of pushing iso's
out to all of the mirrors. There is a lot of work that goes into doing that
and I am not convinced it is necessary. Of course this is just my opinion
and I have no say in what Red Hat decides to do.
I think it would be worthwhile to start thinking of a distribution of linux as a core with a large number of component applications that people update asynchronously to the core.
The stuff outside core will be updated as new, stable versions become available.
That might be a better way of viewing the world of linux distributions, b/c then you don't have to wait 6 months for the next release of $myprog - you can just update $myprog when $myprog is stable enough for you - or stable enough in the opinion of the package maintainer.
This is one of the advantages that yum/apt/etc third-party repository support will buy red hat linux - a greater fluidity of present applications and on the whole newer stuff, with a greater number of bugfixes released. (of course it might mean a greater number of bugs, too ;)
-sv
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