On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 01:00, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
To me, the quality of Fedora Core is no better or no less than Red Hat Linux before it. One thing I _do_ find is that people are making claims on Red Hat Linux that were _never_ true.
Here's a classic example: somewhere in the updates of RH 7.2, the apache DSO module for mod_perl was finally compiled with the correct options and became usable as shipped so people running web sites with it no longer had to recompile apache with mod_perl included statically. This was also supplied in the 7.3 release. Unfortunately it broke again when RH 8.0 moved to apache 2.0 but that's beside the point - or perhaps it was the beginning of the new era.
What, in fedora, is ever going to be equivalent of that RH 7.2 -> RH 7.3 transition where features weren't exactly frozen but there was a focus on getting existing things right without introducing new problems. No one here is interested in SLA's, or we wouldn't be having this discussion on the mail list of a distribution that doesn't offer them. We just want a product that mostly works and isn't too far behind the developers.
It's not that Red Hat doesn't have its issues or focus. It's just that people need to focus on those details that are actual issues, and not invent things. Like this Red Hat Linux product I never knew existed.
Come on - I would have guessed that you still had some RH 7.3 boxes in production too. Or do you only work with companies that will pay for vendor support on everything?