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Re: Red Hat 4.1: Any plans?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Zedalis)
Fri Oct 25 09:35:52 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:29:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Zedalis <tintype@exis.net>
To: "Arthur D. Jerijian" <celestra@ix.netcom.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610250604.XAA01167@celestra.adj.net>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Arthur D. Jerijian wrote:
> I've noticed that Red Hat 4.0 has about 30 errata! I believe that it
> would be a good idea to release Red Hat 4.1 soon, which might fix
> the errata as well as upgrade a few packages (such as teTeX 0.4,
> xxgdb 1.12, etc...)
I disagree. Its the rushing 4.0 out the door that got us into this mess
in the first place. There was considerable pressure to release
distributions with the 2.0 kernels, shadow support, updated tcl/tk etc.
Red Hat did an admirable job. I'm sure that they are working on 4.1
(4.01?). But I would rather not see it until it is ready for primetime.
Update-itus and creeping featurism is ruining the computer software
arena. After all, even the so-called "stable" kernel is a moving target.
We are already at 5 revisions past what RedHat provided at 2.0.23 with
24 in the works. Several of the "bugs" in RedHat 4.0 have to do not with
RedHat errors per-say but with working out incompatibilities between all
these new technologies and the fact that it has become in vogue to
find security flaws in the OS. In fact it is so popular to be the one
to release the "Security Hole Du Jour" that unknowing people are
discovering and announcing flaws that have been known about for a long
time and they have been either patched or are not really flaws but
differences in the level of break-in paranoia of the people/systems
involved. I'm all for RedHat working like the devil on the next version,
but I'd rather not see (and more importantly pay for) a CD that was
pressed before all the issues in it have been resolved. I think that
RedHat has two choices. Keep what is there and patch it until it all
works, or spend all their time keeping up with the Jones's and updates
to the hundreds of packages out there. I think they are taking the
right tack. I don't have a problem with downloading updates. (RPM is
really great guys!)
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Stephen Zedalis Exis Net Inc.
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