Adam Bower wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, D.I. Redhouse wrote:
Didn't it go through a period of being quite badly behind most of the other distributions?
More like other distros try and race each other into having the most unstable software with the biggest version number in!
that's not strictly true, but I know what you mean ;)
Yeah, Redhat is alright but whenever they release a new version it is usually followed by loads of patches to get bits of it working that should of when it shipped.
that has certainly been the case in the past, along with a lot of other distro's (mandrake, suse etc..).. but I believe the newest versions of the popular distro's are getting very stable, and the patches are usually security releases. I'm not making excuses for any of the vendors, but to be honest I don't blame redhat when openldap has a security bug... imho that's life...
Debian appears to have far much more quality control IMHO,
agreed, this makes it rock solid (from what I've heard), but it also means that the latest stuff isn't in there.. I don;t see any thing wrong with that, each to their own...
I am still sore with Mandrake after they shipped an entire distro (which I bought at full retail price) with broken init scripts when I was a newbie, I paid for Mandrake as it was supposed to be easy to use/learn.
how long ago was that, just curious...
Sz