Re: re: red hat 8 -> maybe a stupid question?

2002-07-14 Thread Bobby Treaster
But unlike mandrake RH7.1 and newer won't boot from cd on older machines where mandrake still will cuz they haven't gone to the 2.88FD format in their iso. If their was a way for me to bypass that in a laptop that doesn't have a floppy drive (external or internal) or the money to buy a new one

Re: red hat 8 -> maybe a stupid question?

2002-07-12 Thread Eric Wood
And incomplete gui tools at that -eric - Original Message - From: "loophole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And to think of it > -they are replacing some great text based tools with > gui based ones. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTE

re: red hat 8 -> maybe a stupid question?

2002-07-11 Thread loophole
i agree. what rh is doing is driving users craze. every release they add new programs and exludes some (like linuxconf, rp3-config etc.). And to think of it -they are replacing some great text based tools with gui based ones. they are beginning to look like mandrake :) = --

re: red hat 8 -> maybe a stupid question?

2002-07-11 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 17:58, daniel wrote: > this may sound like a stupid question > but why are there releases at all? > isn't linux an evolving thing? > if each release just includes new software packages > why not just release them as updates to older versions? > what exactly requires an upgrad

re: red hat 8 -> maybe a stupid question?

2002-07-11 Thread daniel
this may sound like a stupid question but why are there releases at all? isn't linux an evolving thing? if each release just includes new software packages why not just release them as updates to older versions? what exactly requires an upgrade if everything, including the kernel can be recompiled