[nflug] RE: Copy of Red Hat 7.2

Wed Dec 7 12:26:54 EST 2005

Oops! Add me to that list of uncultured, rude and ill-mannered luzers! 
I thought I'd set up Thunderbird to do text only in this account. 
Probably messed it up in the last upgrade, and, (sigh...) at work it's 
Windows. :-\
Fixed it now. Good policy if we all switch to straight text, though.
-Greg

David W. Aquilina wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:25:15PM -0800, ptgoodman wrote:
>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
>> <html>
>> <head>
>>   <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
>>   <title></title>
>> </head>
>> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
>> Hi Ron,<br>
>> <br>
>> I have a set of the original Red Hat 7.<u>3</u> distribution CDs. If
>> interested, it would only be a matter of getting them to you.<br>
>> <br>
>> It's not "End of Life". I'm curious as to why anyone would say that
>> when they no doubt jumped on the bandwagon when it became available.
>> But, being a Luddite, I've never seen the need to update daily or adopt
>> the very newest HW or SW. Don't fix it if it ain't broke. OTOH, having
>> more than 64 KB is more than just a luxury.<br>
>> <br>
>> ptg<br>
>> <br>
> 
> HTML e-mail is horribly annoying. Did you really need to add a bunch of crud to underline a single character? Would _other_ notation not have sufficied? 
> 
> And it's not a question of getting the latest and greatest versions of whatever package you may want. It's a matter of getting security updates to your existing packages. Linux is *not* invulnerable - when (not if) you get compromised, your system will be contributing just as much as a Windows system to the spam and other crap that's flooding the internet. 
> 
> If the original poster would be so kind as to reply with his requirements for the system and the system's specifications, I'm sure someone on the list could suggest a distribution which is currently receiving security updates so the system doesn't become yet another festering pimple on the face of the internet... 
> 
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