The solution is KISS.
The more they try to simplify the process of installing rpms, the more you realize how stupid it is in the first place.
There are a number of distributions which use pacman, including Arch Linux. It's so easy, even I can do it.
I'm not so sure it's ignorance. This is perhaps the most arrogant company I have ever dealt with in my life. Most of the other companies out there who have competition don't treat it mildly. I'm not sure where the arrogance comes from, but they're just sitting in RedHat HQ with smirks on their faces.
When we threated to move to SuSE they said, "Good luck reading the German manuals." When we let them come back and pitch their product again, they made no concessions on price, and said, "We'll still be here when Novell goes under."
I think this would be a good time to complain about RedHat. Like many institutions we were using 7.2 on our servers and 8 on our desktops when RedHat decided to pull out the carpet as a Christmas present. Their prices were outrageous (roughly 5 times as expensive as SuSE at the time), and when we mentioned SuSE, they laughed and said, "I hope you're fluent in German."
We transitioned to SuSE with very little trouble, and we were happy with their aggressive march to the 2.6 kernel, which RedHat found to be premature. A couple of years later they came by again, and we thought that perhaps they would be a little less arrogant, and willing to talk about prices. Nope. Their attitude was, "SuSE will fail, and you will come crawling back to us."
This particular attitude of theirs wasn't just limited to our business. I heard it from other sysadmins who seemed to be genuinely happy that SuSE has worked out as well as it has. I'm now with a business that uses RedHat and they can't stand them. They are even thinking of moving to Solaris.
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The solution is KISS. The more they try to simplify the process of installing rpms, the more you realize how stupid it is in the first place. There are a number of distributions which use pacman, including Arch Linux. It's so easy, even I can do it.
I'm not so sure it's ignorance. This is perhaps the most arrogant company I have ever dealt with in my life. Most of the other companies out there who have competition don't treat it mildly. I'm not sure where the arrogance comes from, but they're just sitting in RedHat HQ with smirks on their faces. When we threated to move to SuSE they said, "Good luck reading the German manuals." When we let them come back and pitch their product again, they made no concessions on price, and said, "We'll still be here when Novell goes under."
I think this would be a good time to complain about RedHat. Like many institutions we were using 7.2 on our servers and 8 on our desktops when RedHat decided to pull out the carpet as a Christmas present. Their prices were outrageous (roughly 5 times as expensive as SuSE at the time), and when we mentioned SuSE, they laughed and said, "I hope you're fluent in German."
We transitioned to SuSE with very little trouble, and we were happy with their aggressive march to the 2.6 kernel, which RedHat found to be premature. A couple of years later they came by again, and we thought that perhaps they would be a little less arrogant, and willing to talk about prices. Nope. Their attitude was, "SuSE will fail, and you will come crawling back to us."
This particular attitude of theirs wasn't just limited to our business. I heard it from other sysadmins who seemed to be genuinely happy that SuSE has worked out as well as it has. I'm now with a business that uses RedHat and they can't stand them. They are even thinking of moving to Solaris.