[1015] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Red Hat 4.1: Any plans?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hart)
Fri Oct 25 19:16:58 1996
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:09:55 +1000 (EST)
From: Robert Hart <hartr@interweft.com.au>
Reply-To: Robert Hart <iweft@ipax.com.au>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961025091203.25338F-100000@marlin.exis.net>
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Hi
Let's inject a little bit of reality into the discussion about Red Hat
4.0 and releasing a new version with the errata list fixes on it.
Has anyone ever loaded a commercial operating system that has been bug
free? To keep this real, think about commercial Unix systems...
The RAPID fixing of bugs is one of the things that really makes Linux
stand head and shoulders above its 'commercial' relative. I do not
consider that 30 entries in the errata is a problem - partcularly when
there are *fixes* for them available for free download.
In terms of the noise level on this list, please remember that people who
have installed Red Hat 4 and are not having trouble will not be posting -
only those people who are having problems - and those willing to help
sort things out - will active here.
I don't know what proportion of people who have installed Red Hat 4.0 are
having problems (that can't be fixed using the errata and update packages),
but it is certainly NOT 100%!
From the traffic on this list, it is also obvious that people are not
reading the erratas before leaing into print. What must also be remebered
is that Linux gets thrown at a *huge* range of hardware. This
(inevitably) creates problems when people don't really understand their
hardware and give the installation faulty information...
Finally, anyone who installs a brand new OS onto a mission critical
system without trying it somewhere else is asking for trouble.
I now have my Red Hat 4.0 CDs and have a 1GB disk in my system ready to
install it onto. I would prefer to put it on a test system, but don't have
one available. This is the best compromise I can find. If I crash and
burn, I have a route out of the mess.
Give Red Hat a go people. Yes, it would be nice if the 4.0 system
installed onto all hardware without a murmur, over all previous (and
hacked) Red Hat 2 & 3 systems without requiring after the event tweaking
and when lots of people installed, it was found that not one update was
required.
However, this is the real world people. Looking out of the window, I
don't see pigs nesting in the eucalypt trees...
Robert Hart iweft@ipax.com.au
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InterWeft, 35 Summit Road, Lilydale, Victoria 3140, Australia
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