On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 12:02 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > still broken apps being shipped.... Fedora Core is not a maintenance > > release of enterprise software, it's a linux distribution designed to > > bring new technology and features to the masses. Hopefully those masses > > include ISVs who will now get of their butts to fix their apps > > quicker ;) > > I think you've hit on a problem. The ISVs that I work with are > completely focused on "Enterprise Linux" distributions -- which is the > idea. AFAICT, they have not gotten the message that they should be > testing their software on Fedora Core. to be fair both RHEL3 and RHEL4 default to NPTL.... > Perhaps each release of Fedora Core should be wrapped up in a nice box > and shipped out to all of the ISVs as a RHEL "Technical Preview" or > some such thing. there's ongoing work in RH to work with ISVs better (well isn't there always :). It's sometimes hard, for some of these ISVs linux is a really really small portion of their customer base and they spend as little money/time on it as possible.
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