Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Joerg Schilling > <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > > > > >> > Would you like to run a Linux kernel from 2004 today? > > Has the CD format changed since 2004? This is why you are happy with buggy software from 2004 shipped by redhat when there is software with no known bugs? > > In other words, you either choose a distro that offers up to date packages or > > you need to compile yourself. > > I'm sure you realize that no one on this list wants 'up to date' > software as shipped by developers - and why. Is there some compromise > possible where a somewhat vetted, packaged release exists? Or > RedHat gets appropriate bug reports so they fix the broken parts? > Redhat had more than 100 bugs filed against the "cdrtools" version they ship. All these bugs could be avoided by upgrading to a recent original version. Redhat closed these unfixed bugs instead of doing it's homework that would result in updated versions. So it seems that redhat doesn't care about bug reports. Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily