[WBEL-users] Very stupid question, but....

[Raimo Koski]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Wes A. Jones wrote:
>  > If all these "clones" are so close to RH, could
>  > you not simply use RH's updates?
> 
> The binaries aren't available to the public, only RH-paying customers.
> 
>  >Or make your own RPM's?
> 
> Yep, as the SRPMS *are* available, so nothing prevents anyone from 
> (re)building their own rpms.

Most are easy and fast to build, but some require much skill and long 
time. Openoffice.org is the slowest to compile and it takes something like 
12 hours on a reasonably fast machine, the next is kernel. Of the problems 
the most recent examples can be found on 
http://www.hughesjr.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,65/page,viewforum/f,13/ 
and http://www.raimokoski.com/pub/lineox/4.0B2/x86_64/os/README-LINEOX
Also if you roll your own, you don't have a user base as testers unless 
you release them and that in turn means paying ISP fees etc.

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Raimo Koski  http://www.lineox.com  http://www.raimokoski.com/