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Red Hat Interviewed about Red Hat Linux 7
theridersofrohirrim writes "Linuxtoday has a very interesting summary and some interviews with redhat staff, regarding redhat 7, gcc 2.96, and more. It also includes some embarassing (but justified in my opinion) comments for Slashdot's redhat 7 bug story. Linuxtoday's article can be found their site."
It also includes some embarassing (but justified in my opinion) comments for Slashdot's redhat 7 bug story.
I know that the slashdot Editors/Hemos/etc say they're overworked & don't have time to check their facts, but just how much damage do you think that the original story that slashdot posted did?
The mainstream media (who don't know any better) often look to slashdot as a source for stories - I just wonder how much trouble it stirred up for no apparent reason? Isn't that FUD?
I've been using RH7 for a few days & have found it to be a good, if not a little bloated, distribution.
Please, please, please start checking the stories before you post them.....
I don't know what the ruckus is all about. With the release of 7.0, more posts were made about "I hope it's not as buggy as 6.0!" and "I'll wait for the .1 release!" then most others, yet people still insist on installing and then complaining? (loudly, rudely)
The introduction of gcc was justified to me. Perhaps not to you, but I understand their reasoning. The inclusion of kgcc should have been enough; RTFM.
I understand that without complaints problems may not get solved, but there's probably better ways to spend your energy - utilizing Bugzilla and the like. If all you do is cause the RedHat crew to expend energy to answer allegations of abuse and bugs, then you're taking them away from SOLVING the problems.
And in either case, it simply goes to prove that you should *ALWAYS* wait for a service pack or release greater than 0.. *grin*
The LinuxToday article just goes to prove that those of us who post on Slashdot have greater impact than we may realize, for good or ill.
-- Talonius
My reality check bounced.
Wrong. Among the things I can think of off the top of my head (and considering I use Debian, I'm sure there are lots more that I can't think of) include XFree 4, a brand-spanking new RPM (4.0, IIRC), and a filesystem reorganization to make things FHS compliant. All of these are major changes, striking at the core of how the distro works and is installed, and as a result merit a new release. Please, take the time to actually find things out before you post.
~luge(frustrated that by the time I post this will have been moderated up as "interesting" instead of down as flamebait)
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