best site for Linux software?

[andy at honnu.com (Anand A Rao)]

Hi Jerry,
Any installfest planned for the newr FUTURE ?  JUST curious
-Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Feldman" <gerry.feldman at compaq.com>
To: <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: best site for Linux software?


> You can come to the installfest and we might be able to burn you a copy of
> SuSE 7.3 (7 CDs).
>
> On 8 Apr 2002 at 14:29, Kent Borg wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:50:20PM -0700, linux lover wrote:
> > > i am running rh7.1 now and want to upgrade!  which is the best way
> > > to copy the entire release down and then install or install from
> > > which site?  also which site is best for the upgrade?
> >
> > Unless you are in some strange part of the world where you have lots
> > of internet bandwidth and an ability to burn CDs but no snail service,
> > I wouldn't try to download the whole thing.
> >
> > I bought an official Red Hat 7.2 at Microcenter because it was handy,
> > I don't mind supporting Redhat, and I like adding to Microcenter's
> > sales statistics of Linux.
> >
> > To save some money go to cheapbytes.com and they can sell exact copies
> > of the Red Hat Linux CDs (but not the 3rd party stuff) for, well,
> > cheap.  Or find someone with CDs and make a copy.  Downloading all
> > that stuff is a pain, you will want a bootable CD for rescue purposes,
> > and your CD blanks aren't quite free...
> >
> > You also might want to wait a bit for RH 7.3 (there is already a beta
> > out and I haven't heard howls of complaint, so it must be decent).
> > 7.2 is pretty nice, but the update RPMs are already over 500 MB, and
> > you want the updates to fix security bugs.  (I think it was a
> > bufferflow bug in a common library that caused so much software to
> > need recompiling.)
> >
> > As for doing the update, I did an update on my notebook from 7.0 to
> > 7.2 and it went pretty smoothly.  For every configuration file they
> > want to change that they spot you have changed, they leave both your
> > version and their version for you to mess with.
> >
> >
> > A note on updated 7.2: The ill-documented "LogWatch" that 7.2 includes
> > defaults to mailing a log summary to root every day, and it just got a
> > security update, but also got a functional update too.  It is now a
> > decent summary who has logged in from what IP address and how many
> > times.  It also lists (but doesn't sumarize) IP addresses that failed
> > to connect because I have them in a xinetd no_access list to prevent
> > at least some spam.  Already useful and it looks like it will get more
> > so.
> >
> >
> > -kb
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