Messages in this thread |  | | From | "T. A." <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Which kernel (Linus or ac)? | Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2001 05:14:33 -0400 |
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> That's odd, my Red Hat servers have been > almost like appliances. Not perfect, but all > the problems I've seen could be dealt with.
Oh I could deal with all of the problems as well. But after a good bit of recompiling, patching, upgrading, backtracking the things done in the "Redhat" way which many times don't match the man pages, as well as undoing the "Redhat" way annoyances I just end up with a variation of my own hand built distribution. And once I have to replace the system experimental C library and compiler it just get even more ridicules.
> I've seen worse problems in commercial > unices, e.g. unixware - yuk - and hpux.
I know. Please don't remind me of UnixWare. I buried that at my clients' and companies' sites in the Linux 1.2.x days.
> x.0 release: New stuff, interesting, buggy > x.1 release: A passable cleanup of the bugs in .0 > x.2 release: A smooth, polished, evolution of .1
Well here's hoping that 7.2 is smooth and polished. Especially since Redhat has become the defacto standard and I'll probably be trying it out again.
> (shrug) I had no idea it was alpha - it works > well for me, and I'm a vi man.
I never keep it around for long after I saw it crash a couple of times on my first 7.0 or 7.1 box so I can't say much about its stability. Besides it was more the principal of the thing. Why in the world use the alpha version of a text editor when a perfectly good released version exists with pretty much the same functionality. One thing I did notice, if I remember correctly. Seamed that either the installed vim was crippled or had a bug in reading my customized .vimrc file. My custom options didn't get loaded until I downloaded the latest 5.[89] source and recompiled myself a new version. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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