Just a quick observation about the updates. First during the past two years ive seen some good and some bad releases.Both .0 i had were quite a bit buggy, but nm, we had updates coming in and that's great.For the enterprise the situation may be different, and since i dont know zit about it ill keep quiet ( yes a wise move ) But for the home computer i dont mind a one year life cycle at all.
Things do move quick in our world and way within the one year period generally with each release things have changed so much that to stay with an older distro dosen't make much sense. As long as the updates are made available for a year after the release i beleive this is quite reasonable.After all when it's obsolete, it's obsolete and we should move to the newer distro.Whatever the update scheme we choose up2date or through an apt repository,ftp etc.. As long as the packages are there it is not that difficult for the average Joe Bear to keep the system secure and up to date. Many packs will within the year will be completely replaced by users with newer versions available on the net, which also is to be considered. ex kernel Syplheed Galeon Mozilla etc. All in all,as a home user,i dont mind the one year life cycle. This time again i will get 9 ( the .0 though infamous dosent scare this bear ) install it and have fun computing... errr hopefully ; ) Richard On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:51:37 +0100 Matthias Saou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Andreas-Johann Ulvestad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > > [...] A positive thing about SuSE is however their long-lived > > support of ISDN and other "typical european" standards. Another thing is > > their naming policy of rpm files... alsa.rpm is a lousy filename, i'd > > preferr alsa-0.5.1.i386.rpm any day. > > Not to mention that they're (still?) sticking with rpm v3... :-/ > > > It's kinda sad to se RH "terminating" support for their standard > > distribution after only one year.. but I guess that's the way everything > > is going.. no longer installing a server and letting it run in a corner > > for a couple of years with automatic package download... > > I think you're underestimating the potential of support you can get from a > community of users for "obsolete" (or at least considered obsolete) > software and/or hardware ;-) > You won't get any official updates for products that will have reached > their EOL, but hey, I think there will always be a solution! > > Matthias > > -- > Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ > Red Hat Linux release 8.0.9x (Phoebe) running Linux kernel 2.4.20-2.54 > Load : 0.14 0.37 0.32, AC on-line, battery charging: 100% (5:39) > > > > -- > Phoebe-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
