Water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink..

[Philip J. Koenig]

On 25 Jul 2003 at 6:51, Net Llama! boldly uttered: 

> On 07/25/03 04:38, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> 
> > On 24 Jul 2003 at 19:02, Net Llama! boldly uttered: 
> > 
> > 
> >>On 07/24/03 18:31, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> >>
> >>>They also have this proprietary driver for RedHat 8.0, which of 
> >>>course I can't find on Redhat's ftp server and neither does 
> >>>LinuxISO.org have them.  If anyone can point me to a source for 
> >>>RedHat 8.0 ISOs, or have another suggestion, I would greatly 
> >>>appreciate it.  I find it highly ironic that it looks like it would 
> >>>be cheaper to use Solaris than Linux.. sigh.
> >>
> >>I don't understand.  You can't find RH8 ISOs or you can't find the 
> >>proprietary RH8 driver for Compaq?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The RH ISOs, which I now have a source for thanks to Andrew.
> 
> And what was wrong with any one of the 100+ official Redhat mirrors listed 
> here?
> http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html


Version 8.0 (the only somewhat recent non-enterprise version Compaq 
supports) was not available on Redhat's ftp site.

I assumed that as per usual, "mirrors" are supposed to be just 
that - copies of a parent site. I thus assumed that they would not 
have material that Redhat's site doesn't have.  

It would be understandable (and common) for Redhat to strongly 
discourage mirror sites making available for download older releases 
which contained software with since-fixed security vulnerabilities, 
as just one example.  Thus I didn't bother looking at any of the 
"mirror" sites.




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Philip J. Koenig                                       
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