On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 11:26, David Krider wrote: > Eric Wood wrote: > > We'll I hate to think that RH has made RH9 (and future releases) so glitchy > > on purpose so that VARs will be forced to only support its enterprise > > editions: AS,ES,WS. > > > > I'm only guessing that there probably won't be much difference between > > rawhide quality and RH10 the next go around. All efforts will go into > > enterprise products. In essense, RH Linux will become (or now is) nothing > > more than beta quality platforms for RH Enterprise Linux. > > You know, I was going to start a new thread on this, but this is a > perfect place to attach these comments. > > I just spent about 2 hours trying to get Quicktime playing on my RHL9 > workstation. For reference, my test .mov is the latest "Animatrix" > movie. I have installed mplayer, and so far, I thought it was great, but > there's nothing in the world I can seem to do to get it to play files in > a browser. Which led me to install pre-made binaries for vlc. Both > players lock up on the Animatrix film. Finally I decided to install > Crossover Plugin, which I own, but wanted to get away from to use > "native" tools, and it's buggered on RHL9. > Of course, stuff like Crossover is buggered in the latest Mandrake and SuSe releases as well, so it's not just Red Hat. And mplayer has almost always been a b***h to get set up. Multimedia-wise, I think Mandrake probably has an advantage, but I just can't deal with their design aesthetic for more than a few hours. > I've whined about it before, but I have to say it again: Red Hat was the > perfect distro (IMNTBHO) before this big re-alignment. In fact, there > was nothing I didn't like about it. I've tried SuSE, Debian, Gentoo, and > Mandrake because of these moves, and I still think Red Hat beats them, > if but slightly, at the moment. So once 7.3 falls off support, I don't > know what I'm going to do. > Hopefully they'll get enough feedback from people in positions like you to provide a more competitive price level for workstation and SOHO installations. I'm in a 12-person company pushing to move to Linux/OpenOffice.org desktops because nobody bothered to actually pay for more than one MS Office license and the company can't afford to rectify that problem at this point. The free download version is fine for our situation. What I would want to see this "accelerated" development of the "community" version mean is Red Hat releasing "blessed" app upgrades, e.g., Red Hat rpms of new mozilla or evolution releases, outside of the standard distro upgrade cycle. Their pronouncements so far have been too ambiguous to really say what their new process will actually look like. > Regards, > dk -- Michael Knepher <limbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
