On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 21:30, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Just ask Linus on why he finally rolled out kernel 2.6, even though many, many drivers were not updated. A whole slew of SCSI, NIC and other drivers were deprecated because they failed to have maintainers who "got with the program" on 2.6 -- which was in development for a _long_ time.
I'm still wondering about that... If anyone except Linus himself even suggested that changing kernel interfaces in a way that would break device drivers was a good thing, I can't imagine the reaction. I could see that the changes through 2.4 were improving things, but is there anything that is measurably better in 2.6 (at least compared to the RH-patched 2.4)? I've been too busy trying to make some firewire drives work as well as they did on FC1 to notice any other changes.
You are complaining about lack of features in a distro that is designed to minimize risk and problems, because of the nature of its SLA-focus. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize the problem with that logic.
Or with the logic of asking customers to pay extra to get something with features removed...
I'll say it again, why do people feel the need to demonize Red Hat here? I left that in the Windows world, why drag it here in the Linux space? It's self-defeating!
I haven't seen anyone demonizing RedHat here. I see some people reporting painful experiences, but I don't think anyone expects perfection and the best thing is to learn from them.