> On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Orlando Andico wrote: > >> >> Red Hat shit indeed!! you should THANK Red Hat for forcibly dragging >> all of you in the future!! if not for Red Hat, you'd all still be >> using libc-5.3.12!!! remember when RH5 came out? everyone was moaning >> and groaning. But guess what.. soon enough everyone was using glibc2 >> with its excellent Unicode, thread-safety, etc. etc. >> >> If you want lean and mean, go back to Slackware 2.0. =) >> > > I have to agree with orly on this one. Redhat 5.0 (libc5 -> glibc) and > Redhat 7.0 (egcs/gcc -> gcc-2.96) were a necessary step to take in > order for code to be used and tested well, for it to mature. THis is > the same reason why Linux released 2.4 prematurely, and it by far took > the longest time a stable kernel series matured to what it is now. > and finally, somebody else gets my point. was waiting for somebody to comment on this. i wrote it in "fine print" in my original post. let us just say that redhat makes the mistakes but the entire community learns from them.
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