Yeah, I was meaning that with like a hundred messages in the last 8 working hours, largely on this thread, I'm doing no work at all right now... And neither is anyone else on the CLUG list.
I think we had more messages on this thread than we've had in like the last month total... Well...almost. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor Lauder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 2:38 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Linux Work > Ironic thread name indeed. I started this thread asking for any Linux > admin work leads since I need to find a new job. Aside from the email I > sent to start this tread, there may have been 1 or 2 others that stayed on > the topic of the thread and the rest went off on their own lol. Oh well, > that's life and this discussion is rather amusing to say the least :) You > would never have this much fun on a Windows mailing list that's for sure > :) > > Trevor > > > I have to say, this is an ironic thread name. > > > > Here's what would be nice. > > > > RH8 install begins, then it prompts me with the last screen where I > > install the packages. It has chosen a ton of defaults, such as Samba > > 2.2.5 HOWEVER, it has also checked, and it sees that there is an updated > > package, 2.2.6 available, so I can select that instead. Some packages > > might have several options. Continuing with Samba, we might also offer > > Samba 2.2, and Samba 2.2 (Save version as older RH installs.) etc. The > > default is X, but newer and older are still available at install time. > > This would allow then to have a single CD install, since everything > > would be a DL. It addresses my desire for current versions, Aaron's > > desire for Binaries, and 90% of users would just go with the defaults, > > so it wouldn't be much more difficult for RH support either.) An added > > advantage is that major security requirements could be forced. Meaning > > the older SSL stuff would no longer be able to install. > > > > Kev. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mark Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 2:09 PM > > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Linux Work > > > > > >> At 01:17 PM 12/2/02, you wrote: > >> >But the installer does not. > >> > >> In our case we wouldn't want it to unless we could define the source > >> of those updates. With Up2date you can't do that. Why would I want my > >> newly installed box downloading from the internet what I already have > > downloaded? > >> Even on RH 7.2 which has about half a CD of updates, I can install > >> updates from a NFS share in a couple of minutes. > >> > >> regards, > >> -- > >> Mark Lane > >> Hard Data Ltd. > >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 > >> FAX: 01-780-456-9772 > >> > >> 11060 - 166 Avenue > >> Edmonton, AB, Canada > >> T5X 1Y3 > >> > >> http://www.harddata.com/ > >> --> Ask me about our Affordable Alpha Systems! <-- > > > > >
