Re: 7.1 is out soon

[Kalum / Grendel <kalum lintux cx>]

On  Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Nabeel S. Kandah commented thusly,

> Oh no what's a linux fan to do? Redhat finally releases (April 24) 7.1
> after I slap Suse 7.1 on my machine, complete with kernel 2.4, XFree86
> 4.0.2, kde 2.0.1, and assorted toys and trinkets.
 
> should I return to Redhat or hang with the Teutonic Linux Distro? Suse

Please dont even consider installing redhats beta software on your system,
we all know how their 7.x release suck, so my advice would be to stick
with a trouble free distro, like the one you have, or mandrake.

> is quite awesome, I might add, no complaints of the major variety. For

Indeed, unlike Rh 7.x, which seems to be more buggy than windoze, infact I
am sure it is, its just that there is no way of quantifying this by using
the bug number, becuase more bugs would have been discovered in windoze
becuase of the very very large user base.

> now Suse is my Linux, but I do have a soft spot for the Redhatters,
> whose version 5.2 introduced me to a non-windoze world.

So do I, but there (RH) latest distros suck badly, and they have become
havily commercialised, so it would be highliy advisable to stay well away
from any new releases, just the same way that you would stay away from any
software that M$ release..
 
> RedHat 7.1 - I bet it's a major improvement over 7.0. The *.1 series are
> generally of higher quality.

Redhat 7.x arent particularly known for there quality or well plannedness
are they? They certainly are known for there overwhelming preference for
satisfying commercial requests than prudence so this might suck even
more...since they are becoming more and more commercialised day by day.

> What's a Linux Fan to do?

For a distro, the major options worth considering are Mandrake, Suse and
Debian. Since you have Suse, pelase stick with it, it sounds you are very
happy.

> Long Live Linux 

Long live Debian, Mandrake, and Suse :)

Best Wishes,
Grendel


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