Confused

As newer releases of the kernel and other components that make up all
distributions, they (i.e. Red Hat, Mandrake, etc.) continually release newer
versions of their products. You can be sure that if you install the most
current release of your favorite distribution, you are getting the most
secure, least bug-infested versions of the software that is included. With
the lead time from typing in the text of a book to the time it hits the
bookshelves, the software references in almost any technical book are
woefully our of date.

My particular beef regarding the marketing of distributions is that the
clueless stores, like Borders for instance, leave outdated distributions on
the shelf. This just confuses the uninitiated. Maybe we should see if we
can get some sort of information out to those stores so that new users are
not buying old versions of the distributions with all the attendant issues
that those older versions are known to have.

On Wednesday 27 February 2002 17:39, you wrote:
> I'm confused by one thing (Ok, a lot more than one) that is I see a lot of
> current books still talking about Red Hat 6.2 and I also see Red Hat 7.2..
> What is the Red Hat 6.2 that is in these books? They are mostly server
> type books.
>
>
> Tom Achtenberg
>
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