Sorry to jump in on this conversation, but these are some very interesting points. Out of curiosity do any of the other Linux distributions use Kickstart or something similar? I too share many of the frustrations with Redhat's release cycle, but Redhat has to do what Redhat has to do. Thanks! -Dan On Tue, 20 May 2003, John wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2003, John Beamon wrote: > > > This is a tiny bit of a tangent, but it's relevant for me right now, > > sitting at my desk in THIS project. I'm kickstarting a Dell PE1650, and > > they come with e1000 gigabit ethernet cards, which are not supported in > > the version of bootnet.img that I'm using. Like so many others, I'm > > still rolling servers on 7.3 because it's proven, lightweight, and > > stable by comparison. Many of us did not upgrade our servers to 8 > > because we were waiting for "8.1", which would fix a large percentage of > > 8's inevitable bugs. Smart people don't upgrade production to a "dot-0" > > release. > > > > I know that the entire kickstart system has been rewritten. XML, cd iso > > images instead of floppies, the works. Today, May 16, I'm still > > tweaking my knowledge of 7.3. By the end of the year, I plan on rolling > > our enterprise up to 9.x, whatever release number is stable at the time. > > I firmly believe there will not be a 9.x: there is 9 and _not_ 9.0. Its > successor, I predict, will be 10. > > If you want the stablility you have been accustomed to in 7.3 then you > must pay for one of the ES offering that's not yet available, or discard > your RH knowledge and adopt another distribution. > > > A few on valhalla-list have avowed their intention to move to Debian and > I myself am writing this on a Debian/Woody system with some unoffical > upgrades - KDE 3.1.1, XFree86 4.3. > > It comes with pretty much the same UI I've been using for years on RHL, > unlike the radical redesign on RHL 8.0. > > > > -- > Please, reply only to the list. > > Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at > http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
