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Mandrake

Here's a brief story wherein you can read about the difficult fate of the FTP site that put up a CD image of the Mandrake distribution for FTP. Evidently quite a few people wanted it...

Red Hat

Red Hat's long-standing habit of silently including updates on later CD's of a release (without indicating as much) was a subject of discussion again this week. It was pointed out, for example, that some 5.1 CD's have the 2.0.34 kernel, while others have 2.0.35. Red Hat seems to have heard the complaints: as of 5.2, all 5.2 CD's will be the same, no updates will be included. There will no longer be any confusion over what you have when you hold a Red Hat CD.

A preferable solution from the customer's point of view, of course, would be to get the updates on the CD with some sort of indication that those updates have occurred. A 5.2.1 release, say. Red Hat absolutely refuses to do that, because they don't want to take returns from distributors when the version number increments. So the resulting solution is not optimal, but consistent releases are at least a step in the right direction.

For those who haven't yet heard the news...KDE RPM's have appeared in Red Hat's "Rawhide" distribution, and can thus be considered likely to appear in 6.0... Evidently the QPL is considered "good enough" by Red Hat.

Tomsrtbt

Version 1.7.100 of the tomsrtbt distribution has been announced; "setserial" and "dhcpcd" have been added this time around.

Trinux

Version 0.47 of the Trinux micro distribution has been released. Trinux boots off of 2-3 floppies, and has a strong emphasis on providing a comprehensive set of security tools. See the announcement for more.

December 24, 1998

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