rh 7.3 instalation

[Garth Meisel]

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> My concerns are mainly security and interoperability. It is just simply
> maddening to download an rpm and find it wants some library that came out a
> year after the version of Linux you've got. Especially when that is
> something like libssl. It's also maddening when you find a package in /tmp
> called redhat-7.3.rootkit.tgz on a machine that runs no servers. I have
> seen both and that is the basis of my choosing to question the 7.3 install.

And no matter how RH hard-core you are, or how SuSE you are, or how WHATEVER 
LINUX DISTRO you are, this is without a doubt the MOST reasonable summing of 
the factors involved.  And this is WHY we don't STOP at 7.3 or 8 or 1539 and  
literally thousands of the world's best Linux people constantly work to 
improve 7 or 7.1 etc while politics dictates the demise of M$ for exactly the 
opposite thought in general.  Just my opinion but I can upgrade or up2date 
until my keyboard and mouse turn blue, without rebuilding or installing the 
latest kernel, it's all for not!  Technology changes far too quickly and this 
is what Linux stands for in sorts.  It's either keep up or go back to Windoze 
3.11.  
I'll go with the flow, and enter 2004 with the latest regardless of how happy 
or content I'm led to believe I am either by chance or fate.

Sorry if I spilled any troll food on the way.  I was running and continue to 
run for the life of my computer(s).      

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