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] +---------------------------+ >
