I'm sick and tired of hearing about how Redhat sucks or about it's bugs. Redhat has a huge undertaking here, and it's bound to make mistakes. 2,500 bugs is NOT accurate so do not even touch that. A lot of you might say, oh but RH 4.1 was so stable, etc. If any of you had a brain you'd realize 7.0 includes a LOT more than 4.1. Just the number of new software packages in 7.0 significantly eclipses 4.1. Anybody who made those comments just has no idea what they're talking about. The fact is, yes, RH 7.0 has bugs. But what idiot would use a x.0 distro for a task in which it's critical for things to work properly? Don't bitch if you do, because if you do (use RH 7.0 for critical tasks), you are just a complete moron anyway. Every open source project is a development in progress, and the distribution is included here. Don't complain; stick with 6.2 until 7.1 or 7.2 comes out. That is just common sense, and if you don't have any, you shouldn't open your mouth. RH 6.2 IMHO was pretty stable by the way. X conked out on me maybe three times if that, but that was because the window manager (KDE) couldn't handle me pushing it to the particular limit that I did. It was not a problem with X, and it's not a problem with the distro because I attempted the same task in Windowmaker and Sawmill and had no problems.
Speaking of this topic, I have a great concern. I've noticed that the sheer stupidity of the comments lately is increasing rapidly. It seems like all the comments are posted by complete newbies who, for instance, wouldn't even know the difference between the problem with the window manager, X, and the distro which I mentioned above. All they would say is "Redhat sucks!" even though the problem wasn't Redhat OR X, but in the window manager itself. It just makes me sick how dumb these comments are, and equally as dumb are the replies to those comments. I remember only a couple years back, if you posted a stupid comment like that you were completely laughed at or just told off for the incredibly idiocy of the comment. Now, judging from the current comments, it seems like the majority doesn't even know if an obviously stupid comment was made. And please, no more "Redhat sucks, Debian's awesome!" remarks. Half of you don't even know why that is. You still think you need to install a new distribution to "get those cool new menus in Gnome and get apache server working." Please, choose a distribution on your own. Use whichever one you like. Take advantage of it's strengths, and if you don't like using something, don't! No one is forcing you to. Some you current Slashdotters (and you know who I'm talking to), I think you need to learn how to recompile a kernel and edit/etc/inetd.conf (*ahem* Redhat auto-update) before you even talk on this forum.
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I think it was a great idea to do this. I thought that BeOS would have been an amazing operating system if they made it open source. It was great to begin with... but it didn't have much software and I knew it was never going to catch on like Linux did if the source code wasn't made available. Now finally they have made an OS in the likes of Be's vision--to have an OS built from scratch that would be extremely fast and built to take advantage of today's computing capabilities and to make it as small, clean, and efficient as possible. And the source code is made available to all.
I like Linux because with Linux people could make software to suit their needs. They had true freedom to do whatever they wanted. Now open source is catching on because people realize that they can make software to suit their needs. And now that companies are spreading the word (yes for their own benefit but at least it's letting people know about a good thing) it's becoming attractive to develop for an OS like Linux. As a result software is as good if not better than commercial stuff and it's coming out at an extremely fast rate. However a qualm of mine with Linux is that it's built "for" a 20+ year old OS and it is made to be the best UNIX system it can be, not the best operating system it can be. Therefore alot of things meant to be compatible with UNIX systems stay which shouldn't, and things which are better for the OS are not implemented because they have to stay "compatible". I loved Linux because you could do anything with it and because eventually (and now it's a reality), tons of software is coming out for it. In my opinion it's already ready for the desktop for basic tasks. I use Linux solely for everything now. The only reason I keep Win98 around is for MS Office. However now that an OS made for today's computers has been released, and it's made from scratch to be clean, fast, and efficient, AtheOS looks much more attractive in my eyes.
I don't like these comments like "oh just another OS with no software" or "it's just an Amiga-like OS". It's not Amiga! It's a new OS built from scratch with support for UNIX programs (a must because there is tons of software out there for it). And it will have lots of software coming out for it soon just because it's a promising new OS and people have the source! That's the most important thing! If you give the source, people will make stuff for it! And you cannot argue with this because look at OS most of you are using (wink wink). Getting back to what I was saying earlier, it's almost like BeOS doing it right. So stop cracking on this. I for one have been looking for this for a long time, and I think I've found it. I plan to give AtheOS a try and maybe even develop software for it. I want to see this succeed because I think it's a good piece of software that should!
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Speaking of this topic, I have a great concern. I've noticed that the sheer stupidity of the comments lately is increasing rapidly. It seems like all the comments are posted by complete newbies who, for instance, wouldn't even know the difference between the problem with the window manager, X, and the distro which I mentioned above. All they would say is "Redhat sucks!" even though the problem wasn't Redhat OR X, but in the window manager itself. It just makes me sick how dumb these comments are, and equally as dumb are the replies to those comments. I remember only a couple years back, if you posted a stupid comment like that you were completely laughed at or just told off for the incredibly idiocy of the comment. Now, judging from the current comments, it seems like the majority doesn't even know if an obviously stupid comment was made. And please, no more "Redhat sucks, Debian's awesome!" remarks. Half of you don't even know why that is. You still think you need to install a new distribution to "get those cool new menus in Gnome and get apache server working." Please, choose a distribution on your own. Use whichever one you like. Take advantage of it's strengths, and if you don't like using something, don't! No one is forcing you to. Some you current Slashdotters (and you know who I'm talking to), I think you need to learn how to recompile a kernel and edit /etc/inetd.conf (*ahem* Redhat auto-update) before you even talk on this forum.
I like Linux because with Linux people could make software to suit their needs. They had true freedom to do whatever they wanted. Now open source is catching on because people realize that they can make software to suit their needs. And now that companies are spreading the word (yes for their own benefit but at least it's letting people know about a good thing) it's becoming attractive to develop for an OS like Linux. As a result software is as good if not better than commercial stuff and it's coming out at an extremely fast rate. However a qualm of mine with Linux is that it's built "for" a 20+ year old OS and it is made to be the best UNIX system it can be, not the best operating system it can be. Therefore alot of things meant to be compatible with UNIX systems stay which shouldn't, and things which are better for the OS are not implemented because they have to stay "compatible". I loved Linux because you could do anything with it and because eventually (and now it's a reality), tons of software is coming out for it. In my opinion it's already ready for the desktop for basic tasks. I use Linux solely for everything now. The only reason I keep Win98 around is for MS Office. However now that an OS made for today's computers has been released, and it's made from scratch to be clean, fast, and efficient, AtheOS looks much more attractive in my eyes.
I don't like these comments like "oh just another OS with no software" or "it's just an Amiga-like OS". It's not Amiga! It's a new OS built from scratch with support for UNIX programs (a must because there is tons of software out there for it). And it will have lots of software coming out for it soon just because it's a promising new OS and people have the source! That's the most important thing! If you give the source, people will make stuff for it! And you cannot argue with this because look at OS most of you are using (wink wink). Getting back to what I was saying earlier, it's almost like BeOS doing it right. So stop cracking on this. I for one have been looking for this for a long time, and I think I've found it. I plan to give AtheOS a try and maybe even develop software for it. I want to see this succeed because I think it's a good piece of software that should!