Re: [Sheflug] Re: Newby

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 03:17:39PM +0000, Richard wrote:
> 
> I've seen a few established Red Hatters muttering some dirty words
> just lately.  Thing that worried me was the massive pile of RH updates
> that have been filling up my mailbox for so long now.  When I used RH
> 4 or 5 it wasn't too bad.  Since 6 and above we seem to be sprinting
> round a track to stay still.  There's another crowd who think that
> Mandrake and Definite Linux are much better anyway.  Glad I'm not a
> system admin at a University just now :)
> 

Same sort of thing that you can see with just about any major
distribution nowadays. As distributions become more commercialised
they have to stick to release dates more rigidly, inevitably leading
to more bugs making it into release material, and as the number of
packages increases so to do the number of pre-release candidates which
make it into each and every distributions official release. The exact
same problem can be seen with others, but Red Hat is so big that it's
more obvious.

A.D.

P.S. I'm no RedHatter myself, I use Debian, Suse and RedHat on different
machines.

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