Re: moving up to 2.5 kernels

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday mindspring com>]

On 30 Jun 2003, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 12:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >  (when, oh when, is red hat
> >    finally going to get a grip and have the URL rawhide.redhat.com
> >    take one *directly* to the rawhide repository?  sigh.)
> 
> Don't you have bookmarks in your web browser or a 'saved sites' ability
> in your FTP client?

bookmarks?  this browser has *bookmarks*?  cool! :-)

> I don't think that rawhide is something Red Hat wants to spend
> marketing-type resources on; it doesn't need its own URL when it's
> perfectly accessible to anyone the way it is.  They don't *want*
> clueless newbies stumbling over it and accidentally upgrading to Rawhide
> things when they don't know what they're doing.

my point is only that red hat is being inconsistent.  either they
want folks to know about rawhide, or they don't.  if they want to
keep it a secret, they shouldn't support the URL rawhide.redhat.com.

if they do support it, then it should point to a reasonable
location, that's all.  there's little value in a publicly-accessible
URL whose content doesn't match its name.  in short, if i *ask*
for rawhide.redhat.com, i want to go there.

rday


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