Apt/Rawhide update to Severn gives me???

[rg]

So, in a sense, what you are saying is that the rawhide upgrade route 
gives me Severn2 minus any changes to the kernel.. or something like that.

Ralston

seth vidal wrote:

>>You have severn + the updates which is the latest beta for the next release
>>of Red Hat Linux. I doubt that at this point anyone can tell you exactly
>>what b2 will look like. In fact I am beginning to wonder if there will be a b2
>>since it is just as easy to install severn and update from up2date or rawhide.
>>I do not really see the point of going through the trouble of pushing iso's
>>out to all of the mirrors. There is a lot of work that goes into doing that
>>and I am not convinced it is necessary. Of course this is just my opinion
>>and I have no say in what Red Hat decides to do. 
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>I think it would be worthwhile to start thinking of a distribution of
>linux as a core with a large number of component applications that
>people update asynchronously to the core.
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>The stuff outside core will be updated as new, stable versions become
>available.
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>That might be a better way of viewing the world of linux distributions,
>b/c then you don't have to wait 6 months for the next release of $myprog
>- you can just update $myprog when $myprog is stable enough for you - or
>stable enough in the opinion of the package maintainer.
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>This is one of the advantages that yum/apt/etc third-party repository
>support will buy red hat linux - a greater fluidity of present
>applications and on the whole newer stuff, with a greater number of
>bugfixes released. (of course it might mean a greater number of bugs,
>too ;)
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