On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 10:50:30PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > ./RedHat/RPMS/gcc-3.1-7.i386.rpm > > ./RedHat/RPMS/gcc-c++-3.1-7.i386.rpm > > ./RedHat/RPMS/gcc-g77-3.1-7.i386.rpm > > ./RedHat/RPMS/gcc-gnat-3.1-7.i386.rpm > > ./RedHat/RPMS/gcc-java-3.1-7.i386.rpm > > ./RedHat/RPMS/gcc-objc-3.1-7.i386.rpm > > good riddance to the 'gcc-2.96' lunacy. One of the things I *really* don't > like about RH is their high-handedness about some things... like using their > own compiler and making a lot of people work to become compatible with > *them*, rather than the other way around. (all the patches they apply to the > kernel is another one). We should thank them to push glibc2, linux-2.2, gtk/gnome and gcc-3.0 to widespread adoption. Without their QA effort and boldness to add something risky to their .0 releases, GNU/Linux would be much less advanced. They are paying Alan Cox and countless others to hack full-time. Show me another Linux company that took the same risks, or gave back so much to the community. > any way you cut it, RedHat is still a commercial entity... on the upside, > this means they can pay a bunch of people to do quality control. on the > downside, they don't have the customer's interests at heart, ... those interests being...? (libc5, linux-2.0 and fwvm?) > as much as > something like the Debian Project does. (and it shows. this is why RH won't > ship apt4rpm anytime soon... it competes with their revenue model). ... which is giving away .rpms and .isos and charging for support. florin, a former happy RedHat user and now a happy Debian user who switched because he is a "new-kernel/new-package" junkie and RedHat wasn't moving as fast as Debian/Testing. -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020702/049b85b1/attachment.pgp