Fwd: [Contributors] Microsoft Windows Is Offically Broken

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 17:42, Guy Fraser wrote:
> > > > Every release of RHL was a 
> > > > tremendous step forward until 8.0 since then there has been one
> > > What was wrong?
> > > 
> > 
> It had nothing to do with the 2.6 kernel or frequent updates. It 
> had to do with dropping support for many of the command line and 
> applications many people used and wanted to continue using. It 
> also involved changes to the kernel that made it impossible for 
> most people to get some of their applications to compile, which 
> is partly why they were dropped by Red Hat. Unfortunately if 
> anyone were to build their own kernel, they would then have to 
> constantly maintain it, whenever security vulnerabilities were 
> discovered. In any case things broke without warning and no 
> remedies were provided by Red Hat, the package was just dropped 
> in the next release. Many of these packages are still maintained 
> and available on other distributions, contrary to many of the 
> excuses given at the time.
> 
> I can not continue, I feel a rant coming on.

I can't think of anything offhand that worked on RH7.x that
doesn't work in Centos3.x.  Elm, maybe...  Examples???

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  Les Mikesell
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