At 05:57 PM 6/18/01 -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:

>> ...If we could refer
>> people to a version that was readily available to people who do not have
>> their own CD burners, I agree that it would address a lot of the issues we
>> wrestle with.
>
>Hmm...I forget not everyone has a CD rom burner yet.  Perhaps a qualifer for
>any disto should be the ability to mirror the CD and/or sell copies at
>minimal cost...
>
>Of course, it's pretty hard to buy a Debian Slink (or RH 5.x) CD in today's
>world, so most w/o a CD burner would be stuck (or have to ask for help) as
>well...

Yes, exactly. The two issues with our current (sort of) reliance on these
older distributions are:

1. How available are they? 

2. How secure are they?

Both apply to Hard Hat (or most any distribution outside the mainstream,
where security updates get posted regularly) as well.


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