> John Summerfield wrote: > > >>--- Jure Pecar <Jure.Pecar@select-tech.si> wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>is there any ETA of the next release of RedHat? I > >>>know that 'when it's > >>>ready' is the best answer... > >>> > >>If you knew that was the best answer you were going to > >>get, then why ask? > >> > >> > > > >Presumably he's one who hopes that Red Hat will eventually understand that i > ts > >customers really do need to plan these things. > > > > > Look now, would you rather RedHat gives a launch date that can't be met > without > performing all quality checks like Microsoft is notorious for. I think most business clients would prefer a realistic date they could plan around. Red Hat has proven it an make a complete release cycle in the time MS can overrun its projected release date. > > Plan for what is avilable now, not what might be avialable tomorrow. > > Currently Enima is a good stable product, if you want some of the newer I'm sure you can make a more flattering wrong name than that. > features > use the beta skipjack. If you want to slide down the bleading edge you > can also try > Rawhide. > > Until the next stable release is availabe you don't even know what is > features will > be. How can you plan for unknown features? > > Besides how many of you, whiners even buy the boxed sets to support > development? > > I have paid for every version since I started using RedHat 4.0 and from > my experience As people have already observed, RH doesn't make a lot of money out of boxed sets. Besides, dollars for the boxed set isn't the only way to help RH. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. ============================== If you don't like being told you're wrong, be right! _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
