From: Tim Boyer 

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:03:54 -0800, Randall Parker

wrote:

>Tim Boyer wrote:
>
>> Huge new changes in the software.  You're the asking the equivalent of 'Why
>> doesn't Windows just upgrade IE, OE, the TCP stack, and the gui
incrementally,
>> rather than going from 2K to XP'?
>
>Well, a lot of time went by between 2K and XP. We are talking 7 months
>from FC5 to FC6.
>

I don't think Microsoft took three years by choice. :)

>
>> For instance, Fedora Core 6 includes Xen with it, which took a bunch of
kernel
>> work to accomplish.  BTW, virtualization works _great_.
>
>Virtualization as in virtual machines? What are you using it for?
>

Separate virtual machines for DNS, email, etc.  Going to try Win2K one of
these days...

>>
>>> I also wonder if I download, say, KDE from the main KDE web site and
>>> then to yum update if KDE will get revved from the main web site or from
>>>  the Fedora web site (or one of its mirrors) since I installed on top
>>> of Fedora Core?
>>>
>>
>> With up2date (the RHEL equivalent of yum), you'll get something like
>> 'Configuration file has been changed.  Not updated'.
>
>What does that mean? That up2date only takes updates off the RH site and
>therefore if it finds an entry no longer points to that site as a source
>of updates for that app it won't update it even from the site where it
>now points?
>
>I'm thinking that yum must just go where each entry says to go look for
>the updates for that entry.

I haven't done much with yum.  RHEL is going yum in 5, so I guess I'll be
learning quickly...

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tim boyer
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