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From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Randall Parker wrote:
> Adam > wrote:
>>> Well, a lot of time went by between 2K and XP. We are talking 7 months
>>> from FC5 to FC6.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah but
>>
>> (A) You get sh*t all with windows. No Office apps, drawing tools,
>> databases etc.etc.etc. An OS + a GI + the very least that MS can get
>> away with (e.g. note/word pad)or require for competitive reasons (e.g.
>> IE, OE, WMP)
>>
>> (B) To what degree is the MS release schedule driven purely by the
>> profit motive rather than when s/w is ready etc. i.e. gotta get everyone
>> onto Win2K & only then....release XP & then get everyone
onto XP &
>> then...
>
> I do not see why one should do a complete upgrade install of everything
> just to get latest versions of some apps. Seems to me we should get
> upgrades of each app when each upgrade becomes available and rev them
> separately from the OS.
>

I dunno about RH but with Mandriva you can do exactly that. Set up the cooker
repo or plf etc & then select those apps etc you want to update.


> As it stands now I see the updating I'm doing appears to be revving the
> kernel version even though I'm staying with FC5.

Blimey. Usually you have to choose to update the kernel.

I have to say that I've not used RH since 5.2/6.0 & since then it's been
mandriva, Ubuntu/debian/knoppix or Suse/Novell.

Adam

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