Demonizing generic Linux issues as Fedora Core-only issues -- WAS: Hi, Bryan

[lesmikesell at gmail.com (Les Mikesell)]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 21:30, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> Just ask Linus on why he finally rolled out kernel 2.6, even though
> many, many drivers were not updated.  A whole slew of SCSI, NIC and
> other drivers were deprecated because they failed to have maintainers
> who "got with the program" on 2.6 -- which was in development for a
> _long_ time.

I'm still wondering about that... If anyone except Linus himself
even suggested that changing kernel interfaces in a way that would
break device drivers was a good thing, I can't imagine the reaction.
I could see that the changes through 2.4 were improving things, but
is there anything that is measurably better in 2.6 (at least compared
to the RH-patched 2.4)?  I've been too busy trying to make some
firewire drives work as well as they did on FC1 to notice any other
changes.

> You are complaining about lack of features in a distro that is designed
> to minimize risk and problems, because of the nature of its SLA-focus.
> It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize the problem with that
> logic.

Or with the logic of asking customers to pay extra to get something with
features removed...

> I'll say it again, why do people feel the need to demonize Red Hat here?
> I left that in the Windows world, why drag it here in the Linux space?
> It's self-defeating!

I haven't seen anyone demonizing RedHat here.  I see some people
reporting painful experiences, but I don't think anyone expects
perfection and the best thing is to learn from them.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
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