Re: OT - How come the competition is getting it right

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

M.Hockings wrote:
> Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
>
> > Will Novell finally get it right this time and by listening to their
> > users? or Will RedHat drop the ball and forget us Red Hat Linux 9 as
> > Fedora is too volatile, April is coming up very fast. Is a stable 
> > version required to keep US users happy and the product
> > alive with eager supporters and the name Red Hat as good will or Will
> > inaction be the answer again?
> >
> > Chris Cz
> >
> >
> > Cut and paste...
> >
> >  
> >
> > > Mandrake modifies release system
> > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/02/02/1931213
> > >
> > >    jlguallar writes "(...) The new release road map:The spirit of the 
> > > new
> > >    development road map is to keep providing a release similar to 
> > > what was
> > >    released in the past, which will now be called "Mandrake Linux
> > >    Community." This is the regular Mandrake Linux distribution, based on
> > >    Cooker, which goes through the traditional QA process. But from 
> > > now on,
> > >    a second 'rock-solid' version titled "Mandrake Linux Official" 
> > > will be
> > >    released two or three months after Mandrake Linux Community. This new
> > >    version will include all Erratas applied to the initial release, 
> > > and as
> > >    a result will be particularly solid and problem-free. The Community
> > >    release will be ideal for those who want the 'latest and greatest'
> > >    features as soon as available, while the second release will be 
> > > perfect
> > >    for those who prefer to wait and avoid any potential glitches. 
> > > (...)"   
>
> I'm not getting the point you are trying to make

I think he's railing about RH pulling support for all RH Linuxes.

Chris, FC1 is plenty stable.  I have it on a bunch of servers here.
It's fine.  It's as stable as any Red Hat Linux release--certainly
as stable as 8.0 ever was (that should NEVER have been released) and
as stable as RH9 is for 95% of the users.  I've had two instabilities,
and they had to do with a special, custom tweak I did to some drivers.

The most common problem with FC1 is that a number of drivers (nVidia is
the biggest culprit) aren't up to date as far as the kernel is
concerned.  FC1 has done more kernel updates than RH has, typically, but
no worse than RH had with several releases (7.3, 8.0 and 9).

Of course, that's my opinion.  I could be wrong.
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