Re: linux

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >i'm thinking of downloading redhat 5.1 tonight....
> Well, it's going to be a long night; you're looking at downloading something
> over 1 Gb if you want EVERYTHING, maybe more like around 220-300 if you
> want what RH calls a "standard install".
> 
> Now if you come to a meeting and hand a couple of blank CDROMs (or money in 
> lieu of plastic) someone, that someone will make you a copy, which will be
> brought to the next meeting. In fact, this person downloads all the updates
> from the RH site and includes them, so not only do you get RH Linux, but you
> get allthe known bug fixes as of the date your CDROM was made.

The "someone" Bob spoke of is me.
I currently have Redhat 5.0 in this format.  All updates from Redhat
(up to a couple weeks ago anyway) on my CD (called BSware 5.0).

This CD only contains the software that is legal to copy and distribute.
Exactly the same thing you would get, if you FTP'ded it from RH.

If you give me a blank CDR at a meeting, I will make a copy of
BSware and bring it to the mext meeting for you to pick up.
If you don't have a blank CDR, I will sell you one of mine,
for $2. (about the price I paid for it)

I currently have Official RH 5.1 in hand, I have to remove the
commercial software (Metro X, BRU, Real, etc) from the CD before 
I can legally make copies of it.  I haven't had a chance to do 
this yet, but plan on having it done in the next couple of weeks.
It won't be ready by this week's meeting, but maybe next.

If we have time this meeting, I can give a little talk about
my initial impression of RH5.1.  I also will have a laptop
at the meeting running 5.1 that people can look at.

I've had some problems with some of my software I compiled
on earlier releases of Redhat not being upward compatible
and not running on 5.1.  I'll give more details about this
at the meeting.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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