Re: [SLUG] Distributions

[DaZZa <dazza@nospam.zip.com.au>]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Jon Biddell wrote:

> This is one dislike I have for Redhat - their attitude to releases - SuSE 
> seem, IMHO, to be more concerned with quality and customer service, as you 
> said. I'm still running 6.3 on the desktop, and *may* look at Debian for 
> the server, although tha's running 6.3 at the moment as well. 6.4 doesn't 
> seem to have enough to warrant the agro of an upgrade / reinstall - I think 
> I'll wait until 7.0 comes out - not a bad idea when you think of it, only 
> do a major upgrade every time the "main" version number changes.

Yup, no fscking argument. RedHat's "keeping up with the joneses" attitude
gives me the trey bits. 6.1 was a perfect example - they'd _just_ released
6.0 not two or three weeks before - someone {Caldera?} came out with a
completely graphical install - so Redhat rushed 6.1 out to do the same.

Needless to say, 6.1 was the biggest pile of crap I've ever seen, and
needed almost 50 meg of upgrades within two weeks of release - which drove
me from Redhat to SuSE - I'm also considering Debian, except I've been
told they take far too long to go from code freeze to release. I dunno - I
might do it yet.

DaZZa

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