[mdlug] Linux in the store front ?

[Rich Clark <rrclark@rrclark.net>]

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Wolfger wrote:

> On 5/18/07, Fati <fati at venerealinjection.com> wrote:
> > > Why Is Linux not in the store shelves, is it because many download the
> > > ISO's?
> >
> > That seems likely, I know personally I've only bought Linux from a
> > store once, when I bought Redhat 5.2 nearly 10 years ago.
> 
> I bought Mandrake 7.2 off the store shelf, got home and found out that
> 8.2 was just released... I don't think I need to say how disappointed
> I was that I just paid ~$40 for something that was already out of
> date, and which I immediately replaced with the current version, which
> only cost me a few blank CDs.
> 
> I love the idea of having Linux on store shelves, but the fact is that
> Linux releases new versions far too quickly for it to be a really good
> idea. Maybe if there were more Gentoo-ish distros (where "upgrading to
> the current version" is just a matter of typing one command), it would
> be a better idea.

So what's difficult about updating your urpmi media sites, then issuing 
"urpmi --update --auto --auto-select"?