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Re: Red Hat 6.1 for Sale!



Yoni Elhanani wrote:

> Wow they are quick!
> It's one thing to download it and find out the next day that it's the
> beta,
> but it's another thing to burn a thousand CDs and ship the image to a cd
> factory.
> 
> Though I believe that it is the real thing, as the rumor says it will be
> announced in monday anyway.
> (I guess they wanted to give mirrors a chance to get it in time, but
> screwed up and put it on the main ftp too)

Look at the following:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/10/02/1410221&cid=84

It ensures everything you wrote: That it is real and final, that
they screwed up, etc.

In any case, I don't believe CheapBytes will start to burn CDRs
and charge credit cards before Monday, when RedHat is expected to
(pre)-announce 6.1. Meanwhile, they collect orders.

> Anyway I'm downloading it, and I'll be done in about 12 hours (going at
> 15 K/s).
> So tell me if you want me to burn it for you.

Wow...
Anyway, I think it will be very useful to send a list of the RPMs
to the list, so everybody can know if the kernel is 2.2.12 or a
pre-release of 2.2.13, and what GNOME is there (since the next
major is a few days far from completion...), and what wu-ftpd is
there (because of the same reason, but with a vulnerable stable
release which makes the release candidate a "must" for the 6.1),
and so on.

And if you want to have an up-to-date distro for the installation
party (and not the obsolete 6.0), subscribers with CDRs should
volunteer to burn disks for Friday.

> I would expect them to print manuals earlier, I wonder if they have them

They never did it, so why this time?

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