[WBEL-users] Respin upgrade?

[Jamey Fletcher]

Johnny Hughes wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 09:51, Mickael Maddison wrote:

>>What is "Respin"?  Is that just the latest update?

> YES.

> RedHat releases a quarterly update ... and they make new ISOs available
> with the updates migrated in.  So that is what WBEL is calling a respin
> ... it is all the updates to 5/31/2004 already on the CD.  This is
> really good because on new installs because there are many fewer updates
> after the install on the first update ... and newer hardware drivers are
> provided.

Actually, it's the second quarterly update.  With the time involved in 
doing a respin, and the bandwidth strain when one comes out, John 
doesn't want to do them every 3 months.

>>Also, is x86_64 the right one for pentium range processors or is that intended for AMD or?

> x86_64 is an AMD64 distro.

The x86_64 should also work on the Intel Xeons with the extended 64 bit 
instruction set.  *NOT* the Itanics, though.