and if you've purchased the sles or rhas, shouldn't you have that logon? -----Original Message----- From: Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLES 8
True, assuming you can find them. I'm not sure, but you might also need a registration code/login. > -----Original Message----- > From: Little, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] SLES 8 > > > if that's the case, you can always download the srpms and build them > yourself. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SLES 8 > > > Not DIRECTLY. The "Advanced Server" model has the same > support model on > both platforms. My point is that there IS another model for > Intel, and they > do supply RPM's that CAN be installed on the AS > version IF YOU WANT. On 390, since nobody is even BUILDING > new RPM's, you > don't even have the option unless you build yourself. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Little, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:05 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] SLES 8 > > > > > > Yes, but do they give you a choice for there "server" (sles or rhas) > > products on intel? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:24 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: SLES 8 > > > > > > To reiterate, Red Hat and SuSE for Intel give you a CHOICE. > > At least they > > SUPPLY the new version RPM's. That's not the case > > (officially) with the > > SLES-for-390 version. > > > > Config files shouldn't be stepped on by a properly built RPM. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 6:30 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] SLES 8 > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:12:32AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote: > > > > > > > > > The downside (I've found) of the SuSE philosophy on > > > maintenance of the SLES series is that they never (normally) > > > release a new VERSION of a product to fix a problem. They > > > just retrofit patches to the > > > > > version supplied with the distro. > > > > > > > > This is generally the case with Red Hat too. THe aim, I > > think, is to > > > > minimist changes so as to minimise the posibility of > > > conflict with other > > > > components, startup scripts and so on. > > > > > > And the changes to your config files! > > > > > > In other words: it is a fix, that should fix your system, not > > > break it. > > > > > > A side-effect: You end up with a "vulnorable" samba 2.0.7 and > > > openssh 3.1 > > > (Or so some skript kiddis might think) > > > > > > -- > > > Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ > > > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ > > > > > >
