On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 03:44, Neil Marjoram wrote: > Can I just cause a little stir? > > Get some opinions maybe. > > I've left the fold - I even considered the dark side for a few seconds! > What am I talking about ? RH 8.0 / RH 9.0, I am now using Mandrake 9.1, > because I'm a little fed up with problems like : > > Acrobat > Realplayer > Gmplayer > HPOJ > HPIJS > WACOM > wave_lan > etc.................. > > Yes after hours of work I now have a system working, but ahhh it's a SMP > running usb so the printer locks up. > > Oh and let me see linuxprinting.org - yes printer works perfectly - > given aprox 20 hours of stress. > > So I tried SUSE - the same, but Mandrake, well thats different. Only > thing left is wacom - but can't get it off the wife to test yet! > > As a server I use RH 7.3, it's good, but at the momenet I have no plans > to migrate to 8 or 9. As a desktop I want the latest fancy stuff so by > by RH. > > How about before the next release (10 or is it 11) can we get the > desktop to work, instead of adding things like the redhat look and feel. > > My experience, just so you don't think I'm a newbie. > > RHCE on RH 8.0 > With Linux since 1997 / 8 > Unix admin since 1993 - AIX 3 - 4.3 / Solaris 2.5 - 9 / Tru64 > > Linux used RH 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 /9 > Mandrake 9.1 > SUSE 5 / 8 > > Please can we push RH to get this sorted? RH8/9 are in my list of worst > *ix's ever! > > End of rant.....! ------ A valid point but... RedHat chooses to distribute only those items with source and a non-restrictive license as part of the distribution. RedHat has made this point on their web site. People that recognize and understand the GPL license recognize the aims of RedHat and those that don't understand GPL license typically don't. Since you don't want to be bothered with the details - not that I blame you, there are indeed other options out there and I wish you luck. I fail to see why you feel the need to drop this in our faces. Craig
