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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Re:Impressions by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-05 06:41 · Score: 1, Troll

Actually I did meet him at a trade show not long ago. I did find him kind of annoying. It was kind of dissappointing really, since I'm a big fan of Slashdot and a long-time user, I kind of pictured him as a cool guy.

Of course I didn't really get to know him well, maybe deep down he's thoughtful and interesting, but on the surface he was one of those guys who thinks putting everything down is funny and doesn't realize that it's just annoying. (I'm not overly sensitive to put-downs by the way, in the hands of a master they can be very funny, but Rob isn't a master.)

A lot of it might be just immaturity. Maybe in a few years he'll grow into a crazy, but interesting person like Stallman. (Who can also be annoying as hell, but once you get him to stop evangelizing actually has some interesting viewpoints.)
Grr by Cave+Dweller · 2001-08-05 06:14 · Score: 0, Troll

Ok, Cmdr, if *YOU* don't want to make that comment, I will :)

Happily running Debian.. no more rpmfind.net for me :)
Elitism by CmdrTaco? No way!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-05 05:47 · Score: 0, Troll

Yes thank you very much! Now, we all know that CmdrTaco uses debian.
But still, I consider it appropriate to thank RedHat for making a nice distro which seems to be the preferred distro for corporations and not flame away at the folks from RH!
Impressions by bwoodring · 2001-08-05 06:21 · Score: 1, Troll

Has anyone else gotten the impression that if they met Taco in person, they'd despise him. I'm not trying to be a troll here, I'm serious.

I really get the impression that he is a spoiled, whiney man-child. He reminds me of the stereo-typical movie director or prima-donna actor, whining and screaming at his assistants.

I mean, maybe I'm the only one, and I admit that I've never and probably will never meet him. But I've managed to stitch together an opinion of hime from his half-wit article comments and stories I've read about him.

If I'm wrong, and you've met him and he's a great guy, feel free to correct me.
1. Re:Impressions by bwoodring · 2001-08-05 06:33 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  Good point. But on the other hand, that is the price of the fame/fortune he's received. Now maybe he feels like this isn't what he signed up for, but he really reminds me of a spoiled athelete/actor. If he doesn't want to put up with the bs, perhaps he should consider handing slashdot over to someone else, it is stagnating these days anyway. Kuro5hin is improving rapidly and I find myself reading it more and more and slashdot less and less.
Re:Agreed... by 198348726583297634 · 2001-08-05 10:49 · Score: 1, Troll

Yes..maybe we should look to Rob as a reflection of slashdot "culture" *shudder* ... childish and sloppy (insults, personal opinions, and myriad spelling/grammar mistakes in his article descriptions), fancies himself king of the world without really much claim to it (the slashdot code - I honestly don't get how poorly it could be put together, causing so many glitches and crashes on a nonstop basis.. writing websites isn't rocket science people!), and spends his days on the soapbox yelling at anyone who will listen (c'mon, even if you're not a hardcore linus evangelist, you know you've pontificated about _something_ computer-related to friends/family at least once) ...
*sighs*