On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 22:27 +0200, Patrick Sannes wrote:
perhaps a stupid question, but where can I find the suse 8 ftp version? It suposed to be released in a couple of weeks (as usual)
It can be found on your local file server (the machine with drives for multiple media and lots of disk space). It's held there for those machines you want to install but which neither have a local CD drive nor an other means to get the distribution files from -- except for network access. That's exactly the situation where FTP installation makes sense. Installing from a public FTP server for anything else but fun and personal pleasure has been called stupid in the thread before. You don't connect not yet set up / tightened machines to an open network, do you? And yes, I'm aware of signed RPMs to eliminate some of the concerns. But not all. 1) *every* package had to be signed. 2) which signature is the package signed with and checked against? You got to have "clean" boot / bootstrap media. 3) even signed packages come with holes and vulnerabilities you don't want to offer to the world. 4) when distributors started to count (and praise) how *few* mouseclicks their systems take to install and boot they decided for more and more things to run by default, so that every wheenie gets all the bells and whistles running OOTB. That's when the after installation process of locking down all the stuff you didn't want in the first place takes more and more time with every new release. It's constantly getting easier to setup a modern distribution while it constantly gets harder to do it right. :( But I got sidetracked in the last few sentences ... virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you.