On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:26:22PM -0400, JohnS wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:45 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > R P Herrold wrote:
> >
> > > oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than
> > > hijacking. Quantity does not imply quality, and AWOL
> > > maintainers who move on is a problem in all of FOSS
> >
> > Quality is implied by the hefty QA process debian goes
> > through, and the long release cycles. I thought I had
> > communicated that in the previous message. The last two
> > major releases took almost 2 years of work each. Similar
> > to the QA that Red Hat does, which is why their base packages
> > are solid and well tested. This same level of QA of course
> > doesn't apply to 3rd party repos.
> >
> > > and so R-2.9.0 is not available to you, and if your users
> > > wanted R-xts, to extend zoo [which extends R], the only
> > place
> > > for those packages in Debian packaging are r-forge and CRAN
> > > (as they are not in any 'official' Debian archive, and only
> > > in the independents).
> >
> > The users will have to make do with what there is. The same
> > is true for CentOS/RHEL on my systems. I can't remember the
> > last time I went to CPAN. I did maintain a couple dozen ruby
> > on rails packages at my last company for the systems there,
> > everything built by hand, it wasn't easy, or fun.
> >
> > For what it's worth, I like both CentOS and Debian. (Heck, I even like
> > openSUSE as an OS, but I'm not crazy about Novel's smooching with
> > Microsoft.)
> ---
> Not crazy about smooching huh? Ever bother to really research the facts?
> RedHat and MS are parteners! In the Virtualization area and more.
Speaking of researching the facts, I suggest you do the same.
RedHat's "partnership" with MS most specifically does NOT include any
kind of patent licensing crap. The contortions MS/Novell had to go thru
in their agreement to try to squeeze into a tiny loophole in the GPL2
are the really objectional parts. The "obey the letter but not the spirit"
of the GPL nonsense stinks to high heaven.
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