[WBEL-users] WBEL3 respin2

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Feb 14 22:16:12 CST 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 21:51 -0600, John Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 21:36, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> 
> > Other than a little less wait on the very first "yum -y update", what's the 
> > advantage of a respin? 
> 
> A lot of new hardware is supported in the newer kernel so it is a
> difference between being able to install and not, especially on x86_64.
> 
> Which brings up a topic, should WBEL stop bothering with respins of 3.0
> when RH ceases install support in Oct '06 since it is doubtful they will
> add new hardware support after that and it will become just a case of
> avoiding the long update process?  How many new installs of WBEL3 would
> likely be happening by then?
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it's certainly your call but that sort of makes sense. I guess that a
wait and see is in order.

Craig



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