On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 08:36:01PM +0800, Leon Harris wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knew what the status of immunix is ?

Crispin has mentioned that we are working on a 7+ release. We expect all
Immunix OS 7.0 users will want to upgrade to 7+, because 7+ includes
fixes for dozens of security problems.

7.0 needs many patches; we have released roughly 70 updated packages
for 7.0. 7+ includes security fixes to an additional 30 packages or so.
While it is likely that one could piecemeal-upgrade their 7.0 system
with updates, a fully-updated 7.0 system will resemble a 7+ system.

And, in fact, it is likely that one will be able to take the RPMs we
will release for 7+ and upgrade a 7.0 machine with those packages. We
won't bother with updates to 7.0 simply because 7+ can be considered as
the single omnibus patch that fixes all known problems.

> It seems that they are very tardy with respect to patches and updates
> for immunix 7.0

Yes; there came a point when it was far easier to roll out one large
upgrade, rather than continue to handle dozens of smaller updates.
(Anyone who has downloaded the 177 megabytes of updated packages is
likely to agree that it was time to release a new distribution. :)

If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Seth

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