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[Net Llama!]

On 07/25/03 12:11, Philip J. Koenig wrote:

> 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.

Funny how its there now:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/8.0

> 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.

I honestly don't know what you're talking about:

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/redhat/redhat/linux/8.0
ftp://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/pub/redhat-pub/redhat/linux/8.0
ftp://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/pub/linux/redhat/linux/8.0

And that's just the first 3 that i checked.

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