[KLUG Members] Re: My suggestion on organizing binary CDs for x86 chip-specific optimizations

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 11:29, Bruce Smith wrote:
> You're correct.  I honestly believe that Redhat doesn't care about the
> money from CD sales of their base distribution.  Why else would they put
> ISO images of new releases on their ftp site days before you can order
> the product?  They have to be focusing on income from support and
> enterprise products.

You are correct!  And, at the same time, RedHat is a GPL-anal company. 
This means that anything they find themselves doing for
support/enterprise customers, they usually add to the general
distribution.  Such is the case with all the new and different
pre-compiled kernels you see in the latest distros.  Such will be the
case with x86-64.

So I'm trying to suggest a new path to accomodate these better _before_
CD #1 becomes little more than the installer and just kernel RPMs.  ;-P

-- Bryan

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