[1665] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Best for new users , 3.0.3 or 4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Tue Oct 29 15:36:43 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:57:18 +1300."
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:35:45 -0500
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"Mike Armour" writes:
>About a week and a half ago I ordered RH 4.0 from RH but when I rung
>Airborne express they said it STILL hasn't even been picked up :(
:-(
>Pack from Infomagic which they can have here in like 3 days and then
>getting 4.0 when more of the bugs are worked out (Linux novice) since I'm
>not really up to spending hours hacking <g> .
It shouldn't take much of a hacker to apply the fixes in the errata; if
it does, we've screwed up writing them. Once you have applied the
errata, a 4.0 system should have fewer bugs than a 3.0.3 system. We
have fixed bugs in 4.0 that are still present in 3.0.3, and I think
that we've fixed just about all reported bugs in 4.0 that were not
present in 3.0.3.
I have to install Red Hat Linux on test machines here at Red Hat on
a regular basis. I've gotten so inured to the easy installation
that comes with 4.0 that I complain every time I have to install
3.0.3. It's really not that bad -- it's just that 4.0 is so much
easier, IMHO. But for a new user, I'd suggest that 4.0 will likely
be significantly easier to install, if that's important to you.
Of course, I work for Red Hat, so you can take this with as many
grains of salt as you like.
michaelkjohnson
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