On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:55:08AM -0600, Erik Hanson wrote: >Ok. So many people have been saying "Debian needs a faster release" or >"Redhat needs to release sooner to keep my system up to date". And I am not >picking on you Ben, your email was just the last one I got. My question is, >since this is all Linux, why can you not just upgrade what you want on your >own? You want the latest MySQL? Down load it and install it. Want latest >PHP? Download and install it. Want latest kernel? I think you see where I >am going. I mean, isn't that kida the point of linux? If i wanted to do that, I'd run linux from scratch. I prefer redhat because it takes alot of the guesswork out of being an admin. upgrading stuff you've installed from source can be cumbersome. I never said I _couldn't_ do it this way, but why would I? This is the reason I elected to use a prepackaged distribution. > >Just a thought. -- Ben Lutgens http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ Sistina Software Inc. (mail -s "get -info" blutgens-info at sistina.com) for my gpg key, IM info etc. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020321/c12b92ab/attachment.pgp