On 5/28/05, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
On Saturday 28 May 2005 00:37, Collins Richey wrote:
I get a chuckle out of this. You may not have actually said that the RedHat enterprise releases are better than other distros, but you have vigorously sought to prove RedHat totally blameless when confronted by the effects of their release choices (inclusions and omissions). When anyone dares to complain, SLA is offered as a panacea for all supposed failings.
Bryan has simply tried to balance against Red Hat bashers who seem to think that Red Hat connot do anything right. Red Hat is not blameless; but neither is Red Hat a Demon Evil. Red Hat has done a lot of good for the open source community.
It's a little more than that. I find few people who consider RedHat to be a Demon Evil or that they can't do anything right, but I can understand the concern about some of their decisions which have made life difficult for (granted) a few, and it's not really helpful to demonize those who complain, as Bryan has done. In essence, RedHat is a business entity, and they make their decisions for business reasons.
I find RHEL/CentOS to be a blessing and a curse.
I find computers in general to be a blessing and a curse.
True enough. My biggest problem, philosophically at least with RedHat, is the now unified release: what's good for server users is what Desktop users get. I'm still looking for the binary distro that has a really stable base but offers functionality upgrades as they come along. Balance but not bleeding edge is the name of the game.
Yes, I know about Gentoo. I've run it almost since inception, and it's ideal in many respects.
I've enjoyed this discussion and learned a lot about RedHat that I didn't know. I thank you for your rational comments. Unlike Bryan, I think you realize that not everyone who disagrees with RedHat on a given topic is an ignoramus.