Yes, the "Cosmos for rednecks" gag was good, but isn't it also worth mentioning he's currently producing the next Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan?
I have been a fan of RH only for a short time (since 5.2). I learned Linux on Slackware 2.something, and have seen some horrible bugs in many distros from just about any vendor.
What I do not understand is, how can you let a distro go 'gold' with so many bugs? Are they not known? Is the beta period to short?
I would compare this to Linus and co. releasing a new major rev. kernel, it takes a long time, and a lot of eyes.
What can we do to help this? It's not like people are not reporting bugs in the beta, it's more like there's not enough time to address the issues. Or am I all wet here?
First to all of those who are saying that "You've lost to MS, blah blah blah, give up.", and that we "wouldn't be scrutinizing th results of the tests as much" if we had come out on top. I totally agree people are way more motivated by loss that they are by success. Just look at MS, everyone must admit that they are preforming any miracles. They feel safe where they are, and invoation is a risk. Same thing with car companies, telephone companies, and electric companies.
Now as far as the results the article itself goes, the author admit's that it's advocacy. It does bring up a good point. Being able to crank out a bagillion pages a minute is wonderful, but there are other things to look at such as the application of the machine, the availablity requirements, cost, and available hardware.
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Yes, the "Cosmos for rednecks" gag was good, but isn't it also worth mentioning he's currently producing the next Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan?
This could be so good.
because it's been 10 years since my last post.
Congrats Rob. /. sure has come a long way since the overheated Alpha in your closet. Isn't that thing in a museum or something now?
So which party will you be attending?
-dragon (Chris)
Hasn't this been on Slashdot before, a few months ago?
Some of us do remember - but this ID is only from 1998 or so anyway, well after my C64 was forgotten and Quake, etc took over ;)
I have been a fan of RH only for a short time (since 5.2). I learned Linux on Slackware 2.something, and have seen some horrible bugs in many distros from just about any vendor.
What I do not understand is, how can you let a distro go 'gold' with so many bugs? Are they not known? Is the beta period to short?
I would compare this to Linus and co. releasing a new major rev. kernel, it takes a long time, and a lot of eyes.
What can we do to help this? It's not like people are not reporting bugs in the beta, it's more like there's not enough time to address the issues. Or am I all wet here?
Just my $0.02.
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First to all of those who are saying that "You've lost to MS, blah blah blah, give up.", and that we "wouldn't be scrutinizing th results of the tests as much" if we had come out on top. I totally agree people are way more motivated by loss that they are by success. Just look at MS, everyone must admit that they are preforming any miracles. They feel safe where they are, and invoation is a risk. Same thing with car companies, telephone companies, and electric companies.
Now as far as the results the article itself goes, the author admit's that it's advocacy. It does bring up a good point. Being able to crank out a bagillion pages a minute is wonderful, but there are other things to look at such as the application of the machine, the availablity requirements, cost, and available hardware.