[RULE] Re: Fedora replaces Red Hat Linux -- "unreliable" Red Hat???(rant warning)

[Frank Bergmann]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Martin Stricker cum veritate scripsit :

> "Bryan J. Smith" wrote:
> > 
[...]
> > As far as their "business tactics," those remained _unchanged_ since
> > their founding.  Bob Young will run Red Hat like the Microsoft of
> > the Linux world, and there is _nothing_ wrong with that because the
> > former offers a "balance" (whereas Microsoft does not offer such).
> 
> Interesting - I always considered S.u.S.E. as being the Microsoft of the
> Linux world...

Full ACK. Proprietary kernels, proprietary "single solutions", causing all 
more incompatibilities than any other distro - IMHO SuSE is as far away 
from Red Hat like it is from Debian or any other distro.

[...]
> > It makes no sense for Red Hat to maintain the support infrastructure
> > at their _own_expense_ to support binary compatibility.  So they took
> > the only road they could.  And now we have a platform with a 5-7 year

If they continue to drive this road then many people (including me) won't 
continue supporting Red Hat itself (bugzilla). Example given:
It took approx. 6 months to fix a stupid bug in RH9 network configuration 
scripts. I needed some days to understand the "dirty" python code written 
by RH. It wasn't possible to create a "normal" ISDN connection due to this 
stupid bug and *they* couldn't fix it for months. I'm still wondering how 
other RH9 users managed their ISDN dialup connection.
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85365
"The community" won't support RH in such ways if they continue to drive 
*this* new road.

[...]
> Sorry for the long post and the off-topic!

Me too! :-)

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