[WBEL-users] WBEL3 respin2
Toby Bluhm
tkb9 at adelphia.net
Mon Feb 14 22:40:43 CST 2005
---- John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> 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?
>
Respin2 would be nice, but I don't mind building up from respin1 and more importantly, I'd rather see effort go into WBEL4.
I'll be using some clone of RHEL4, I would prefer it to be WBEL4.
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