Running Rawhide post FC4

Just to comment on my appreciation with rawhide being easier to update. With the lack of having to do --exclude=snafued.package, testing packages is easier to do. Thanks for the pre-emptive measure taken. I would like to see other features to slim down the amount of different archs and different amount of processor packages that you need to maintain. I would like to see the need to only need to maintain a multiprocessor version of the kernel that would work equally well on a uni-processor computer. The trouble that I have run into was related to power management and to keeping my laptop from going up in smoke. I have powernow-something7 and cannot run the smp kernel at present. I would say that I know firsthand how important it is to not have you computer frying up as a french-fry or toast on the higfh settings. keep up the good work for FC5 and future installations. I am proud that one of our products are going to the mode of running Linux. The features that the programs are having are amazing vs. their M$ versions fom the past. The thing I can see is the price put forth to the customer. I think this can be reduced to some degree. We have the potential to be a paying customer for a Linux distributor, but presently are starting at RHL 7.x versions. I am sure that the Linux pricing has a lot to do with the choices in lands overseas as to using Linux as a tool to make products which do what you want them to accomplish. I do think that the per seat or whatever could be reduced a bit. Customers want products that can do what will make their product sell and be reliable. Reduced pricing might bring new clients into the Red Hat product fold. The core being the core operating system vs. all the useful programs that are now included in Extras seems to be the right approach. The limiting factor is that you might have some useful programs that you can only get improved by paying someone to improve them. If it is not fun, but adds value to the customer, it ought to be core and someone will hav to be paid to develop it. About the pice of the product vs. support through phone calls, I would dread such a product. I want to use the product to do things that are neat to me. I hate tslking on a phone. A product might be made that it does not include phone support, but if data is provided as to what the malfunctioning program is doing, it will be made to work or an honest reason as to why it failed will be given. Thanks! and I like the present state rawhide is in. Sorry for the additional comments. Jim -- The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in 13 states in the course of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. -- Thomas Jefferson in letter to James Madison, 20 December 1787