On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 wrote:
> > Historically, Red Hat has been extremely sloppy IMNSHO, about indicating
> > what CDs and/or .iso's have exactly what bits on them.
>
> While I agree, it might be worth pointing out that this problem is not
> always Red Hat's fault. In many cases, VARs, distributors, and the like have
> added their own "special" modifications. Dell does this. So does VA. So
> does Macmillan. The Open Source door swings both ways... :-)
>
That's why RedHat calls theirs "Official", and they are actually pretty
good about this. The only duplicate ISO I'm aware off would be when 7.0
was respun, and in that case everything was recalled/destroyed and the new
iso was labeled as 'respin'.
Now, did that stop some people from handing out/distributing the original
ISO, of course not, but RH did do what it could to stop that.
When it comes to the official images RH is actually pretty good.
--rdp
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Rich Payne
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