RedHat 7.2 Beta: Roswell

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday August 5, 2001 @05:38AM from the for-all-you-mad-hatters dept.

LinuxNews.pl writes: "Few days ago RedHat uploaded new Beta release of their distro - Roswell. If you want to find out more about it just go to the LinuxNews.pl" And I won't even make a snide comment about how I haven't run Red Hat in 2 years!

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Holy smokes! by Denial+of+Service · 2001-08-05 06:41 · Score: 4, Insightful

The hypocrisy is flying around this place like shit from howler monkeys today. You're all bashing Taco for his outwardly elitist commentary when the exact same thing flows from most of you on a daily basis. Read virtually any thread around here with as must objectivity as you can muster and it's difficult to miss. God forbid anyone suggest that non-OSS software is better for a certain task or ask a seemingly obvious question.
Personally, I congratulate Rob for having the balls to at least be blunt about it instead of the thinly veiled digs routinely employed by the vast majority of you.
Now, whip out the -1, Troll or Offtopic marking for this as fast as possible and sit back satisfied that another dissenting opinion has been eliminated. It's your duty, isn't it?

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And that was what kind of comment? by SimplyCosmic · 2001-08-05 05:48 · Score: 5, Insightful

And I won't even make a snide comment about how I haven't run Red Hat in 2 years!
Gee ... That certainly looks to be a snide comment to me. Kind of like the guy who insults your entire family, and then thinks a "just kidding" at the end makes up for it.
Normally I try to ignore the biased comments that creep up in the stories here, but the snippy little comments, regardless of the topic, have become a bit much lately.
1. Re:And that was what kind of comment? by mikethegeek · 2001-08-05 06:19 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  "And I won't even make a snide comment about how I haven't run Red Hat in 2 years!"
  
  I agree, this IS horriblly elitist. Yes, Debian is the most "ideologically pure" Linux distro (which I admire), but it's the HARDEST for any non-expert to get any use out of. As a systems engineer, my job is not to impose ideology, but to impliment the best solution, which in the Linux world is Red Hat.
  
  Red Hat is in my experience the best distro for a server, which is what I use 7.1 for. However, I do use Mandrake on my desktop machine, but then that is what Mandrake is INTENDED for.
  
  The press release was REALLY cool, and the name "Roswell" is way cool. Too bad they didn't save that for the final...
  
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Re:Hmm... by LinuxHam · 2001-08-05 07:03 · Score: 3, Insightful

I guess I won't even make a snide comment about whan an asshole Rob is, then

Seriously, that was pretty fuckin' uncalled for. I don't care how insecure RH may be out of the box compared to some other distros, but shit, Linux is Linux, right? You have to secure every distro, and AFAIK, none of them ship with a chrooted apache, bind, and sendmail (or better yet, qmail or postfix). Gimme a break.

Granted, I haven't used it yet, but I have yet to see or hear any evidence as to why apt-get is so much better than rpm -Fvh. Particularly when no commercial apps ship as .deb's. (And yes, some of us have *jobs* where we're well-regarded for specifying closed-source commercial apps for Linux.)

Some people will always find someting to bitch about. Case in point.

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Re:The explanation for this by KidSock · 2001-08-05 14:11 · Score: 3, Insightful

Bero: We haven't come up with a way to work more than 24 hours a day
No! Take it easy. Take your time and make a good product. If you rush it will come out crappy. Keep up the great work but have fun!