best site for Linux software?

[Jerry Feldman]

You can come to the installfest and we might be able to burn you a copy of 
SuSE 7.3 (7 CDs). 

On 8 Apr 2002 at 14:29, Kent Borg wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:50:20PM -0700, linux lover wrote:
> > i am running rh7.1 now and want to upgrade!  which is the best way
> > to copy the entire release down and then install or install from
> > which site?  also which site is best for the upgrade?
> 
> Unless you are in some strange part of the world where you have lots
> of internet bandwidth and an ability to burn CDs but no snail service,
> I wouldn't try to download the whole thing.
> 
> I bought an official Red Hat 7.2 at Microcenter because it was handy,
> I don't mind supporting Redhat, and I like adding to Microcenter's
> sales statistics of Linux.
> 
> To save some money go to cheapbytes.com and they can sell exact copies
> of the Red Hat Linux CDs (but not the 3rd party stuff) for, well,
> cheap.  Or find someone with CDs and make a copy.  Downloading all
> that stuff is a pain, you will want a bootable CD for rescue purposes,
> and your CD blanks aren't quite free...
> 
> You also might want to wait a bit for RH 7.3 (there is already a beta
> out and I haven't heard howls of complaint, so it must be decent).
> 7.2 is pretty nice, but the update RPMs are already over 500 MB, and
> you want the updates to fix security bugs.  (I think it was a
> bufferflow bug in a common library that caused so much software to
> need recompiling.)
> 
> As for doing the update, I did an update on my notebook from 7.0 to
> 7.2 and it went pretty smoothly.  For every configuration file they
> want to change that they spot you have changed, they leave both your
> version and their version for you to mess with.
> 
> 
> A note on updated 7.2: The ill-documented "LogWatch" that 7.2 includes
> defaults to mailing a log summary to root every day, and it just got a
> security update, but also got a functional update too.  It is now a
> decent summary who has logged in from what IP address and how many
> times.  It also lists (but doesn't sumarize) IP addresses that failed
> to connect because I have them in a xinetd no_access list to prevent
> at least some spam.  Already useful and it looks like it will get more
> so.
> 
> 
> -kb
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