Most likely not. Mandrake doesn't thoroughly test everything before
releasing it. If it compiles that's all they care about.
I know for a fact that Red Hat tests their RPMs before releasing them.
If they come in for contrib, then you are usually on your own as to
whether they work or not.
"David D.W. Downey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Most likely not. Mandrake doesn't thoroughly test everything before
releasing it. If it compiles that's all they care about.
What makes you said that ? Every release of XFree86 that I have done
has been tested.
I know for a fact that Red Hat
"David D.W. Downey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Most likely not. Mandrake doesn't thoroughly test everything before
releasing it. If it compiles that's all they care about.
First,
we have 2 dedicated XFree developper doing our X package
and one of them is working full time on X.
They are
First,
snip
So, we do far more than compiling them.
I will not address the first, since this will lend to a long and drawn
out debate covering many different issues that are better served outside
of a public forum.
Second,
we do not insult redhat on our list, please be polite and do so.
"David D.W. Downey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wooa,
for a Microsoft certified person i think you say more than you know :
It's just a cert. Just a cert. Do I work for microsoft? No. Therefore
THIS comment is out of line as well. And you claim, *I'M* fighting the
community. I
Arright. Take this "who whizzed in whose wheaties" somewhere else.
Neither of you are making your respective companies look any better
doing this, and I'm getting personally embarrased to say I'm a RH
user.
But the question still stands - what's the timeline for 4.0?
I downloaded the
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, so I apologize if it isn't.
Running intel RH6.1 with 18 gigs of drive space striped as RAID 0. Is there
a way to work with files larger than 2 gigs? I understand there is an issue
with 32 bit architecture, but I believe there are other OSes doing
I know that while evaluating Reiser FS for use on SourceForge we've
created files up to 4gb in size.
Some versions of reiserfs had a hack for this. Its not a good idea and Im
told its now been removed. If you grab the LFS patches for 2.2 from the
RH 6.2beta kernel rpms you'll be able to build
I know that while evaluating Reiser FS for use on SourceForge we've
created files up to 4gb in size.
Some versions of reiserfs had a hack for this. Its not a good idea and Im
told its now been removed. If you grab the LFS patches for 2.2 from the
RH 6.2beta kernel rpms you'll be able to build
So are you saying that installing the LFS patches into RH6.1 running on an
Intel P2 box will enable a new 64bit version of ext2 (ext3?) filesystem
that can handle large files?
Yes. The ext2 fs can already handle large files, its the infrastructure around
it you need to get. The patches add
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2beta/i386/RedHat/ and couldn't
find anything related to LFS. Thanks for your patience and sorry to ask so
many questions but I haven't been able to find any info so I can figure it
out for myself.
They are in the kernel srpm but commented out by
At 10:42 3/16/00 -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote:
Arright. Take this "who whizzed in whose wheaties" somewhere else.
Neither of you are making your respective companies look any better
doing this, and I'm getting personally embarrased to say I'm a RH
user.
agreed.
But the question still stands -
Hi!
The same is here, but I never post it to list.
400mhz Celeron, ECC ram, modern HDD from IBM (but ide, not scsi).
This is just with kernel, but very rarely, about 20 compiles and 1 failed.
I just hit Enter on this... Or do "rpm -bb ... /dev/null".
Probably not a right way, but I can't
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