Found that article later, but missed the significance, as I encounter RH mostly server-side in the SME anyway - rare now on the DT.
IMNSHO, the community *needs* and should value Linux-archy for the creativity it fosters, even if we choose to run the results of that on *BSD, OS X, or OS/2 for stability.
- But I suspect RH's move may signal the beginning of a major contraction w/r 'commercial' packaging of Linux at the consumer end in general. Ubiquitous broadband + MS dominance...
With what? 100+? distros of Linux now, sure wish we could entice Sam to move to the *BSD's as a dev platform. I haven't needed to install or turn on the Linux-binaries interface in FreeBSD in nearly two years now, and suspect that moving a build/tarball/RPM from *BSD back to Linux would be at least as easy as the reverse...
Bill Hacker
============= Dan wrote:
Here is the what I was referring to:*SNIP*
http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/11/03/1657205.shtml
I am a NetBSD person myself. The reason I asked Sam is because he has said in the past that he does development on a RedHat system. If I ever have a problem with a build I will usually try the same thing on the OS he recommends to make sure it isn't something NetBSD specific before reporting the problem.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
But no other news have I seen that spells 'the end of RedHat' - "..as we
*SNIP*
Bill Hacker
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