>I don't know if you can help me with this or maybe someone else
>can...does the Stork 2k Deluxe edition contain the latest Hail 2.06
>release or will I have to do some upgrading upon receiving it? If
>this is true and I have to upgrade, does it make any difference if
>you purchase it from a reseller or if you order it from Stormix
>directly? In other words, will I receive Hail 2.06 in the Deluxe
>edition if I order from Stormix instead of a reseller?
You will need to upgrade Storm 2k after installing it to get to 2.06.
Releases were printed originally with 2.02, and then later with 2.04
(although I'm not certain about that - perhaps 2.03?). The 2.06 update is
fairly significant, since it contains the Debian 2.2r2 package updates.
There are no plans at this time to print 2.06-based CDs. However, updating
to the latest release is quite easy, simply by issuing apt-get update
followed by apt-get upgrade. If you have limited Internet access, places
like Cheap Bytes (http://www.cheapbytes.com) have the latest Debian 2.2r2
release on CD, so you could install Storm 2.02, upgrade to Debian 2.2r2,
and then updgrade to Storm 2.06 and you'd only need to fetch Storm-specific
package upgrades over the net.
Whether you purchase directly from Stormix directly or a reseller shouldn't
make much difference to the version that you get. I can recommend the
Stormix Store if you are in Canada, since we ship orders from Richmond, BC,
so orders arrive quickly without shipping being too expensive.
> My main questions with Storm 2k are this...since it
>comes with X 3.x.x is it fairly easy to upgrade this to 4.0.2? I
>don't have the time to fight with Linux over X..:) Is it fairly easy
>to upgrade to the 2.4 test kernels, and will it be easy to upgrade
>once the 2.4 kernel is officially released? The fact that some
>packages in Storm 2k are old is my only concern with the
>distro...will attempting to upgrade them work for the most part or
>will I be left with a nonfunctional system? I find the RPM system a
>pain because of the all the dependency problems (I end up trying to
>track down about 40 different packages just to install 1 package),
>will apt-get solve all this for me? :)
apt-get handles dependancies very well. However, since Debian releases a
stable suite of packages only about once a year, some of the packages can
be a bit outdated. It is possible to upgrade on a package by package basis
using dpkg -i, but this is only successful for packages that don't have too
many dependancies (for instancing, updating the Zope-2.1.6 in the stable
release with Zope-2.2.4 from unstable). If you want to upgrade major things
like XFree4 or KDE 2, then you may need to be prepared to upgrade your
whole system to the unstable (er, testing branch now I guess) Debian branch
or have to do a fair bit of futzing around to get things working right. As
for the Linux kernel, installing a 2.4 test release is as simple as
recompiling your kernel, which is not exactly simple, but not terribly hard
if you have experience doing it :). And if you are fairly satisfied with
running a few slightly out-of-date packages on your system, then upgrading
everything on your system (from Perl, to XFree to the Linux kernel) next
summer when the next stable version of Debian is released, then that's
where Debian really shines, as there is really is no easier way to make
major upgrades to your Linux system.
Kevin Teague
http://www.bud.ca
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