From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ignatious.1tree.com(c716099-a.rchdsn1.tx.home.com[24.7.105.70]) (1553 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 08:29:18 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from cpt.kirk (helo=localhost) by ignatious.1tree.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 142vpJ-0005Qx-00 for ; Mon, 04 Dec 2000 07:38:41 -0600 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 07:38:41 -0600 (CST) From: Kirk Wood X-Sender: cpt.kirk@ignatious.1tree.com To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: boot disk needed In-Reply-To: <001201c05e59$1172a440$1c128fd1@tward> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: I would urge you to read up on RedHat 7.0 before installing it. They have included some code that the developers consider mid beta. Their reasoning is that it will become mainstream, it is stable now, and getting it out will find the rest of the problems. Deciding that because my friends didn't have problems I won't either is not a great idea. It is best to look into the problem as then you often find not only a true rate of incidence, but what causes those problems. One that my reading has noted is that bianaries compiled on/for RedHat 7 will often not work on other machines because of the libraries that were added which are considered beta code. I wouldn't let the fact it is beta make me run though. Consider speakup itself is still in bbeta stages. Some software is never released from beta. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net