On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 15:59:56 -0500, Havoc Pennington <hp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 12:37 -0800, Richard Hubbell wrote: > > > > Yeah, I care where they get fixed since I try to use fc3. > > I am surprised that my minimal fc3 install can't run firefox or mozilla > > both have fatal problems with numbers to strings. > > > > prdtoa.c and js_numbertostring stuff > > > > Does RHE suffer similarly? > > > > You'll have to give more details. I think the browsers run for most > everyone else. I suggest filing a bug report, or alternatively asking > for help on fedora-list (the user list; this is the development list)... Have done both, got nowhere fast. To be fixed in FC4 is what I'm told. Don't even know what it is that will be fixed. I even tried to build my own firefox and got stuck on the same problem (with a different symptom, something with shlibsign) . I could just install all the stuff that comes on the cds but I don't want to do that. The fact that it runs for everyone else tells me there exists some silent dependency somewhere. > there are thousands of bugs out there, if everyone panicked about RHEL > vs. Fedora every time they saw one, this list would have no other > traffic ;-) Panic is never recommended in a situation. > > The difference between Fedora and RHEL isn't really what bugs there are > but what promises you have about how/when/by-whom they are fixed. With > Fedora, the fix is normally by upgrade to a new version. With RHEL, it > would normally be by backporting a minimal patch to the old version to > avoid introducing new risks/changes. With Fedora, help or bugfixes come > according to whether other people are interested in fixing your problem; > with RHEL, there are various levels of SLA available from Red Hat that > make commitments about how support requests will be handled. > > Fedora normally has bleeding-edge versions, which means it will often > have a lot of fixes not in old versions, but also is likely to have new > bugs. > > See http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html for the full story. Will have a look. Thanks. Richard > > Havoc > >
