[wplug] CMU installfest this Friday 7th Feb

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

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On Wednesday 05 February 2003 11:13, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
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> > I'm with you, I'm beginning to get fed up with RedHat and its
> > "I-did-it-my-way" mentality.
>
> 	Russ was correct - ALL distros from Red Hat that are ".0" releases
> are KNOW to be buggy.  If you run it and have issues with it guess
> what - that's expected.
> 	What, exactly, is Red Hats " "I-did-it-my-way" mentality" - I'm
> really dying to know what that means.

By that I mean arbitrary choices that create incompatibilities with 
other distributions and/or distribution-neutral applications. gcc 2.96 
is a prime example, the way they changed the location of installed 
programs is another (/opt ignored, everything in /usr and even programs 
like OpenOffice.org in /usr/lib/ !), the fact that they don't do 
newbies a favor and install a default /usr/src/linux/.config messing up 
many configure scripts...

That kind of thing. Anything requiring special attention, just because 
RedHat decided to change something and not follow a convention (be it 
directory standards, official releases of compiles, in-house 
kernel/XFree patches that create behavior inconsistent with the vanilla 
sources).

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