Dag Wieers Scoffs at Coordinated Linux Release Proposal

Nic Doye writes "Dag Wieers responds to Mark Shuttleworth's recent request to ask major Enterprise Linux distributions to synchronise releases, claiming that it 'is no more than a wish to benefit from a lot of work that Novell and Red Hat are already doing in the Enterprise space.' He's confessing to playing Devil's Advocate here, but it is an interesting view from someone with a large amount of experience in the Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS space."

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Das Wiener

[Kadoo]

Das Wiener! Sorry it's late.

Re:Should we pay attention?

[uhlume]

Welcome to the grown-up Internet. You can swear here.

Re:Who really benefits?

[Anonymous Coward]

try this lot [microsoft.com]. Their disto still seems fairly popular though

Tell me about it, been trying to get this one working for ages. Firstly, my friend tells me it's only available on bittorrent, instead of just downloading it from their site. Which is a bit weird, but whatever.

Where I'm really having trouble is with the package manager. How do I add a software repository in that add/remove programs thing? It doesn't seem to mention what type of packages are compatible with it either. Am guessing RPM or DEB, but which is it, maybe someone could enlighten me?

To be honest, I'm about to give up on this Windows thing, it's just not ready for the mainstream.

Re:Should we pay attention?

[RiotingPacifist]

Welcome to the grown-up Internet. You can swear here. why the **** is that funny?

Re:Group benefit

[dag]

So I guess the only one who can have an unbiased opinion about Linux are non-Linux users ?

That makes so much more sense :-)

Re:Should we pay attention?

[uhlume]

"It's all right, you can swear on the Internet; your mum probably isn't going to read it. I know because she's too busy being FUCKED, by me." --Yahtzee Croshaw