On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:48:35PM -0600, Mike Vanecek wrote: > Not really. These are IT types, not computer science types. Their > focus is how to use available technology to make a profit for their > company, not how to make better technology (although some are geeker > than others). Hmmm. I can see your point, at least as to whether they should be working on Fedora too. But in some regards IT types are more likely to encounter precisely this kind of update hell than are ivory tower computer science types who sometimes might be just as happy on an isolated network with no security worries as they tweek some multi-something-er-other-um. > The course is quite demanding considering the background of the > student and what they are expected to achieve in a single semester > (I am continually reminded on my student evals that the course > should be a two semester course, but ....) That I admit I spotted how ambitious it is. I stopped to conclude that these students must already know a lot of the components quite well and they can spend their time building the system. > Maybe one approach would be to stay with RH 9 and then use apt-get > or Fedora Legacy for updates ... I certainly don't know how it will all shake out, but I expect there will be some Fedora versions that will prove quite popular and kept alive by some collection of folks for a long time. What with all the bitching on this list--and all the extra bitching that some of us have refrained from--there seems a clear demand. It might be RH 9 that replaces 7.3 as a long lived popular version, or maybe folks get together and keep 7.3 itself alive for sometime yet, but I can't believe Fedora will produce purely disposable distributions. Maybe there will be a derivative project (Sombrero or something) that stays cheap and doesn't move at a breakneck pace. -kb, the Kent who wonders how much work it would be to produce updates for, say, 7.3, and how much market there would be for them, or maybe the target should be the first Fedora release that includes bit torrent, and run it as some sort of cooperative. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
