On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Tony Lambiris wrote:
> wait wait wait... redhat is the multi-million dollar company.
> they shouldve
> tested 7.0 to mars and back before selling it to consumers. when i buy a linux
> distribution off the shelf, or from the company, I dont expect them to use the
> most bleeding edge technology (which is what red hat does in _all_ their
> releases... another reason why I use debian, you have a stable branch, and an
> unstable branch). There is no excuse for Red Hat shipping a product that will
> crash after 3 weeks no matter what system its running on. If youre going to
> sell your software to enterprise businesses, you'd better put your system
> through more rigiourous testing.
I am not excusing RedHat for the problems that were found in 7.0 (or any
other version). In fact (and I probably should have worded this
differently) I was refering to the partitioning bug, not the rhnsd
problem. The later came about because nobody had actually run the daemon
for 3 weeks before it was released. Is that an acceptable excuse? Of
course not, if they want to add stuff to their releases and install it by
default they should test the living snot out of it first..agreed (though I
can't help thinking that most experienced sysadmins removed that service
after install).
As for RH shipping the bleeding edge stuff...just remember, that's what
consumers want. RH is trying to sell as many copies as possible, they are
a business and are doing their best to stay in business. I'm not saying
this is right or wrong...just stating a fact.
Oh...btw, using your idea of company value...Microsoft should produce bug
free code then :)
--rdp
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Rich Payne
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