Red Hat Linux 9 Release And Interview

Gentu writes "Red Hat Linux 9 has been released to the official mirrors, brace for impact! Additionally, OSNews features an interview with Red Hat Linux's manager, Matt Wilson and they discuss everything from mp3/dvd playback, to Randr, dependancy policies and more." Also on the Red Hat front, DdJ writes "So, I noticed that Red Hat's stock price jumped up a bit this morning, and checked the news to find out why. It turns out they've released a new portal product and a new CMS product. Both appear to be based on Java/Tomcat, which would mean it's not Zope-based or Zend-based. But, they're supposedly open source. Anyone have any further info on this stuff yet?" Update: 04/08 05:24 GMT by T : Don't forget that the new Red Hat release is available through BitTorrent, too.

Comments

Zope?

[The AtomicPunk]

So what, because it's not Zope based, it can't be open source? I don't follow your flippant remark at the end.

That's All Nice and Dandy, But...

[Jack Comics]

Too bad I couldn't get the bloody thing to work. I was finally convinced on giving Red Hat Linux a try, so I went so far as to buy a Red Hat Network subscription last week just so I could go ahead and download and burn Red Hat 9. Once that was done, I went ahead and started installing Red Hat 9. Once it reached the part fairly early on where the GUI installer was to take over, my monitor went blank, and it displayed an error message saying the video signal was out of range. I rebooted, and tried installing again, only to have the same thing happen all over again. No screen, no sound, no nothing. It was like my computer wasn't even on, but it was.

So I said, "Screw this," and went back and re-installed LindowsOS 3 instead, which, irony of all ironies, worked. I had video, I had sound, I had everything. Kinda ironic that the Linux distribution everyone loves to hate, Lindows, worked right out of the box when Red Hat 9 failed miserably. And there's nothing really special about my computer either... it's an AMD XP 2000+, 1 gigabyte of DDR-333 RAM, MSI nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 video card with 64 megabytes of DDR Video RAM, SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum sound card, two 80 gigabyte Western Digital IDE hard drives, and an 18" Sony LCD monitor.

Why RedHat Linux (still) sucks.

[emil]

In no particular order.

• Linux has a spectacular reputation in security circles for the speed of patch development and deployment. The recent up2date changes will change all of this - RedHat will now be worse than Microsoft (which still supports Win98 for free).
• up2date has not developed p2p characteristics - torrent has proven the efficacy, but RedHat appears to ignore it. p2p should play a larger role.
• RedHat still lacks the Korn shell.
• Unless you like emacs, /etc/inputrc belongs in skel like it used to be.
• Claims that ext3 is all things to all people fall on deaf ears. XFS has dynamic inode creation; ext3 doesn't (granted that ext3 can journal data as well as metadata, which XFS doesn't). RedHat has been uniquely lethargic in the Linux filesystem arena, and unfairly biased.
• xinetd - man do I hate this thing. The BSDs can do ipv6 with a standard inetd, but RedHat wanted to make it easy for the setup utility to turn on telnet. This was a Phyrric victory.
• RPM - if RedHat was willing to trash inetd (one of the bastions of standard UNIX), then they should be willing to trash RPM for its many deficiencies.
• The installer - the text-based installer in 9 is substandard for many reasons, and 8 was no gem.
• While RedHat cannot include support for MP3, DVD, or patented truetype code, it should be easy to retrofit an installed system with these features - it is not (the last reference I saw required Debian apt). While RedHat cannot be directly involved with such a site, it should lend some assistance.

I could go on and on...

Ah, let's bash Microsoft

[Acidic_Diarrhea]

My dear anonymous friend,
Please do a little more fact checking before lobbing slander upon a company. If I were to call you a racist without any evidence, I bet you'd be upset. So too is Microsoft upset to hear your charge of anticompetitive practices.
I am currently using Mozilla 1.3 and upon opening the linked page I received the following warning:
"Website Certified By An Unknown Authority
Unable to verify the identity of listman.redhat.com as a trusted site."
So I guess the Mozilla team has been sabotaged and is now in cahoots with Microsoft, right?

Before you bash Microsoft next time, take a breath and relax. There are bigger fish to fry. Saddam Hussein uses rape to keep people in line; Bill Gates uses some rather harsh software licenses. Who is worse? Figure it out and then go after him.

Re:Interview?

[drinkypoo]

He probably learned his interviewing skills from Barbara Walters or something. Of course, she's known for getting the goods, which is why we all know her name.

Some of those are definitely questions I would want answers to if I hadn't sworn off Redhat. I started with redhat 5, which was okay, but redhat 6 (and EVERY subsequent release) has screwed up on me in some major way that convinced me that redhat was annoying. Then I swear I'll never install it again, and then a new release comes out and I install it, and make the same oath.

Well, I didn't install RH8, and I won't install RH9, but if I were going to be a redhate user I would certainly want to know why redhat doesn't come with mp3 compression (if it truly does not), why it uses ext3, why they don't work together with nvidia (redhat would have to, being the current 800 lb gorilla (penguin?) in the linux camp), what about DVD in the future, and what's up with all the #@$%^#@$& dependency issues. Wouldn't you?