[KLUG Members] Speed comparison of all major Linux filesystems.

[Jamie McCarthy]

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bruce@armintl.com (Bruce Smith) writes:

> Since we're talking, what do you think would be a fair price
> for such a service?  I can see it being a premium charged on
> top of the supporting membership fee of $25/year.  How much
> extra would you pay for access to the ISO images all the time?

No offense to the BSware sales and marketing departments :) but I
think as broadband becomes more commonly available the need for
this will fade away.

BSware is still a great idea for people who are new to Linux and
who have only dialup net access at home.  It jump-starts them into
an install that has no known security problems, which probably
gives them a few weeks of grace time before they have to become
sysadmins for real and start downloading current packages to keep
their systems secure.

But more and more Linux distros are starting to do updates to the
proper, current versions of their packages automatically, over the
net, at install time.  Many have one command that from a shell
prompt means "fetch all current versions and install."  Debian has
done this for ages:  it really doesn't matter if your Debian install
CD is a year old, that just means it'll take a few minutes more
during the install process because it has a few more updated
packages to download.

Gentoo just did this for me too (BTW, on a K5-500 CPU with 300 MB of
RAM, it still took 24 hours to compile everything on the install!).

I haven't been paying too terribly much attention to the Red Hat
side of things, but I have heard good things about up2date, the
free/Free remix "up2us", and of course Ximian's Red Carpet tool.
- -- 
  Jamie McCarthy
 http://mccarthy.vg/
  jamie@mccarthy.vg

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