[WBEL-users] WBEL3 respin2

[Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au]

My personal opinion would be that we need them less frequently if they
don't contain HW updates. Just what the frequency is, is where people
will most likely differ. Is your intention still every 2nd update of
RHEL3 to produce a respin until Oct 06?

Will WBEL be doing a WBEL 4.0? I would rather see effort spent on that
than the older 3.0. We have a bunch of people using FC2 and I don't want
to continue supporting Fedora Core with its short life cycle. FC2 to
WBEL4 would be a fairly easy step, I am guessing. We need some of the
features in FC2 so once some of our systems are running it or something
similar like RHEL4 or WBEL4 then we would like to move everything to it
so our maintenance processes are simplified. I would like to say we
would be doing zero WBEL 3 installs by June this year assuming WBEL 4
exists or we find money to go with RHEL4.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org 
> [mailto:whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org] On Behalf Of John Morris
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 February 2005 1:51 PM
> To: whitebox-users at beau.org
> Subject: [WBEL-users] WBEL3 respin2
> 
> 
> 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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