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)
>
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