[1257] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: [Kevin 'Bob' Fu: Re: Relocation of slackware distributions ]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emil Sit)
Mon Feb 19 17:07:03 1996
To: Adam Holt <holt@graphics.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, hartmans@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Feb 1996 16:50:38 EST."
<199602192150.QAA19820@jacana.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 17:06:34 EST
From: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
> Hello Linux-Help whoever receiveth this,
I think linux-dev would have been a more appropriate forum...
> This is a call to urge that somebody at MIT host a copy of the RedHat
> Linux distribution so we have a local copy. I personally use a heavily
> patched Slackware 3.0 but will upgrade to RedHat very soon.
I think that mirroring the distribution should be fairly simple...
> 1. RedHat patches and supports its distribution very well.
I'm not sure how well we would be able to support redhat here. Sam Hartman
has said that he found RedHat 2.0 and 2.1 (or was that 2.1 and 2.2) to be
somewhat unsatisfactory. Someone also commented to me at one point that if
the ftp install dies, it doesn't recover very well. I've cc'ed Sam so he can
issue a more interesting report, if he wants :)
I am under the impression that RedHat requires some special patching done
to the kernel also, which may or may not break Linux-AFS. (I don't remember
where I read this, so I might be wrong.)
Additionally, there is no support for us non-paying customers.
> 3. My half-dozen Linux mailing lists show strong RedHat use. The java-linux
> mailing list alone revealed over a dozen loud voices in favor of the RPM
> (graphical and text apparently) resource install/maintenance package.
People I've talked to agree that the RPM system is much better than the tgz format
used by slackware.
fubob wrote:
> via NFS, write your reasons to linux-help@mit.edu. If there is
> enough interest and someone to write more documentation, it will
> probably be OK.
I think that docs arE the main problem. Just having it available at MIT
would be almost no problem. You don't really need it available via NFS
since RH uses an ftp install (do they have an NFS option?). The
documentation I've written (iLinux) would probably be fairly
easily adaptable to RH however.
Other comments?
Emil
--
Emil Sit | E-mail: sit@mit.edu or esit@bxscience.edu
http://www.bxscience.edu/~esit/ | PGP Public key available on request
PGP key fingerprint = A6 8F D0 69 3E DA BA 19 26 71 EC 1F 22 49 8F 58
