[BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux

Hurst, Cody churst35 at verizon.net
Mon Nov 26 22:16:41 EST 2007


Put it this way, Debian 4.0 etch includes gnome 2.14. I think that says a 
lot and gives some insight to how outdated all other packages are. I just 
want to install it and run it in command line, no desktops or anything.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rimkus, Robert W" <Robert.W.Rimkus at usa-spaceops.com>
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> Hurst Wrote:
>> As a side note, is rhel 4/5 really as outdated as debian stable?
>
> I have no experience with Debian yet so I cannot compare.
>
> My experience with RHEL 4/5 leaves something to be desired.  If you want 
> to build a kernel and have it run then I would stick with Fedora!
>
> But the guys on this list seem to favor Debian so that might be the 
> direction you would consider going.  I am serious looking at it.
>
> Regards,
>
> bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Hurst, Cody
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 6:03 PM
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>
> As a side note, is rhel 4/5 really as outdated as debian stable?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rimkus, Robert W" <Robert.W.Rimkus at usa-spaceops.com>
> To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY."
> <brltty at mielke.cc>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 5:02 AM
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>
>> Hurst Wrote:
>>>as long as it is later than 2.99z then I will be fine.
>>
>> I believe 3.7.2 comes on RHEL 4 but I had to pull the FC6 copy of brltty
>> to run it on RHEL5.
>> FC7 does not have it at all.
>>
>> bob
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc]On
>> Behalf Of Hurst, Cody
>> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 5:25 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux
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>>
>> as long as it is later than 2.99z then I will be fine.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jason White" <jason at jasonjgw.net>
>> To: <brltty at mielke.cc>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 3:24 PM
>> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux
>>
>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 12:44:12PM -0800, Hurst, Cody wrote:
>>>> Does brltty come on Rhel5? orr 4?
>>>
>>> I don't know, but if it does, it will be an old version, and you would 
>>> be
>>> better served by compiling a new version from source anyway.
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