On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:44:05PM -0500, Colburn wrote: > That's encouraging. Sounds like M$ ... or the government ... customers > can pound sand. Release a buggy distro then follow it with buggy > patches and then string them along endlessly. Is RH8 so much like the > voodoo code of M$ that they can't write a development plan to get 8.1 > out on a sked?
Who says they don't have a schedule? What I'm saying is that won't tell you or I the schedule. There's a very big difference in the information that the public gets versus what they know. How or why you're comparing them to Microsoft is beyond me. Microsoft has 100% control over the code they release - it's all developed and tested in-house. Red Hat gets the majority (but not all) of their code from outside sources. Sure, some is buggy and they work with those developers to make sure they're aware of the problems. They may even fix a few themselves. In the long run, though, Red Hat has to decide if they release a prior version that has a different set of bugs, is lacking key features that users want, or release a new version with new bugs. The Red Hat 8.x line is a bleeding edge release. If you want more stability at the expense of features, go with the Enterprise line. Note that I'm still not saying the Enterprise line is bug free, because it isn't. Remember that Red Hat is more of a distributor and packager than developer. The sooner you understand the roles of Red Hat, SuSe, Caldera, etc. in the open source community, the more intelligent decisions you can make. Currently, you seem to be under the impression that Red Hat is taking responsibility for every bug in every package, and that simply is not going anytime soon, especially at the price most people pay. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
