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Re: Red Hat 4.1: Any plans?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Kazimer)
Fri Oct 25 10:07:02 1996
From: markk@corona.esg.apertus.com (Mark Kazimer)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:05:16 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961025091203.25338F-100000@marlin.exis.net> from "Stephen Zedalis" at Oct 25, 96 09:29:39 am
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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.
> System Administrator Hampton Roads' Premier Internet Provider
> tintype@Exis.Net Web Page: http://www.Exis.Net
> Email: support@Exis.net
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Well said! ( In other words, I agree ;) )
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