Re: Downloading the XFree86 4.3.0 binaries

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris www linux org uk>]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 laurent jean-rigaud regis-dgac net wrote:

>Normally, you should use Linux-ix86-glibc22 but it seems that in
>this case you loose RH support..... Officially you should update
>to 3.0 to have XFree86 4.3.

Correct.  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 customers can upgrade to 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 via Red Hat Network for free, which is 
the highly recommended way to get XFree86 4.3.0 because:

- Installing XFree86.org binary version of XFree86 on your system 
  will make your system unsupported by Red Hat.

- Installing the XFree86.org binary version of XFree86 will
  prevent you from being able to cleanly upgrade to a new OS
  release such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 in the future, due 
  to the different way in which the XFree86.org binaries are
  built and installed on the system by default conflicting with 
  the way they are built and installed by most Linux 
  distributions including Red Hat.




-- 
Mike A. Harris