Please, do like me : send this to the list as well.
I don't condamn them. Well, it is basically free.
But I cannot find anybody on the list responding to cirticism to redhat. Or at least
all reports to wrong NFS behaviour, printer doesn't work etc lead to answers to how to
fix it (which is good) but no criticism about the way redhat deals with it (which is
bad).
Things, peolpe, knowledge improve through (appropriate) criticism.
A little (not so) funny note : a friend of mine is a very smart developper who is part
of the X11 developpers staff. He looks at linux like a nice idea going towards the
Windows Syndrom (install-and-don't-try-to-understand). His reference was redhat.
I denied it but now I am starting to agree !
Philippe
PS : still needing answers about (for example) the new-great NFS behaviour
"Russell W. Behne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Philippe Moutarlier wrote:
>
> > I hav already sent messages about those VERY BAD THINGS that redhat is
> > doing nowadays. I don't have the fix right away for you but I
> > experienced the same kind of trouble. I will try to remember the hell I
> > went through to get my printer working and tell you when I know.
> > Basically upgrading with redhat breaks basic things and it doesn't look
> > like they care ! In the case of the printer, they went for the module
> > thing but they didn't think about notifying this to anyone. There is
> > also the NFS pb : no sym link anymore. Even if the docs for exports
> > still say it is OK. I sent messages about this but no help. If you want
> > it, downgrade. Sendmail blocking at boot time for ever if it cannot
> > connect .. and so on . Personnaly, I upgrade to get the latest revision
> > of the software. Not of the distrib which I think is going downwards.
> > Philippe
>
> You'd think that it really wouldn't take much for redhat to write a
> "readme" file and include it in root's directory warning us about drastic
> changes, would you? I'm trying to use this redhat to do *work*, but I find
> I'm spending far too much time trying to find out not only how to get new
> things working, but also what redhat f***** up this time. Besides the
> printer not working diald stopped working with 6.1, so now I have to start
> ppp manually. Every now and then the machine *really* locks up, (a kernel
> lockup!) And yet redhat would have me believe that this distribution is
> stable. I get no log entries when this lockup happens, and even though I
> followed the instructions to get the SysReq working, it still won't work
> either. (And during bootup after a lockup-then-pull-the-plug-session I see
> that something is turning *off* the SysReq key, but damned if I can find
> out what!) And now when I use grep in certain directories I get an "invalid
> option" error, always on an option that I didn't even use!!!???
>
> Yes, this kind of crap has me seriously thinking of upgrading to SuSE
> really soon!
>
> Russ.
> Ne Desit Virtus - The Behne Family Motto
>
> The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were
> not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
> -- H. L. Mencken
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