RE: [Sheflug] Re: Newby

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====

>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.

 Well, my only experience with distros has been RedHat 6.0 onwards (running 
RH7)
and attempting to install Corel on a flatmate's machine (ended up with RedHat
there as well...Corel was hopeless).

 Thanks to Richard, I shall soon experience the joy of Debian, and then I'll
have something to shout about/compare with.

 To be honest, I can't see what all the fuss is with RedHat 7 - I installed 
the
real gcc, installed the errata, as I would any other distro/system.
 I didn't have any issues with it. Then again, I guess the point that was made
that commericalism of the distros will affect quality, bugfixes etc is true.

 I think that "gcc 2.96" was truely stupid.

 Baz.

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