Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Joerg Schilling > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> > Would you like to run a Linux kernel from 2004 today? > > Has the CD format changed since 2004?
This is why you are happy with buggy software from 2004 shipped by redhat when there is software with no known bugs? > > In other words, you either choose a distro that offers up to date packages > > or > > you need to compile yourself. > > I'm sure you realize that no one on this list wants 'up to date' > software as shipped by developers - and why. Is there some compromise > possible where a somewhat vetted, packaged release exists? Or > RedHat gets appropriate bug reports so they fix the broken parts? > Redhat had more than 100 bugs filed against the "cdrtools" version they ship. All these bugs could be avoided by upgrading to a recent original version. Redhat closed these unfixed bugs instead of doing it's homework that would result in updated versions. So it seems that redhat doesn't care about bug reports. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
