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  • 19-03-2002 1:05am
    #1
    MiCr0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,265 ✭✭✭


    is it just me are are *ALL* posts lately about this?

    bad doc's from rh???


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  • #2
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Possibly, but I always reckoned Red Hat's docs were pretty good. Not that I use them that much, I usually use Google or people to answer questions for me.

    I guess market share has a lot to do with it?

    adam


  • #3
    flamegrill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭flamegrill


    I think generally that most red hat releases are quite buggy. If you try and vary your setup in anyway, e.g. compile a new kernel, install software from source etc.. , you can run head on into problems. I blame rpm for this to be honest. I also think that RedHat should be a much better OS, like come on They have been doing it for years now, but like Microsoft they still havent got it right.........

    regards,

    Paul


  • #4
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    I think generally that most red hat releases are quite buggy.

    The major (.0) releases are always buggy. This is annoying, but true for a lot of distros (and OS's). The .1 releases are pretty stable. The .2 releases are stable as a rock. 5,6 & 7 were all like this.

    If you try and vary your setup in anyway, e.g. compile a new kernel, install software from source etc.. , you can run head on into problems.

    I've installed loads of software on Red Hat, and I've only run into a few problems. Usually just a missing -devel rpm.

    I blame rpm for this to be honest.

    RPM was pretty annoying up until 7, but I reckon it's pretty good now (and they're still learning from Debian). It's a compromise really, you either use a package manager and put up with package war, or you install everything from source and put up with the complications that come from that. I run a remote Red Hat machine though, and keep it up to date with... up2date, and I run into very, very few problems. In fact the only time I have problems is when I /fiddle/ with it.

    I also think that RedHat should be a much better OS, like come on They have been doing it for years now, but like Microsoft they still havent got it right.........

    Well, I like 7.2 a lot. Who has "got it right"?

    adam


  • #5
    Typedef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    Yeah does anyone remember the debacle that happened with the unofficial Red Hat release of gcc? They released their own version of 2.95.3 or something didn't they, and in some config scripts it is actually the case that this particular compiler version is searched for and an error message raised is it not?

    Myself I always perferred Mandrake until I got into Slackware, Debian, Gentoo and Smalllinux, but still rh did come up with some good things in their day, like gnome, so I guess it can't be all bad.

    Typedef

    I think a Slackware banner is in order.


  • #6
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Errah, every distro fscks up every now and then. Red Hat has problems with licencing in the past too. To be fair though, they've contributed a fair wedge back to the community...

    adam


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  • #7
    sisob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭sisob


    my problem with redhat is that so mannny newbies I encounter install it, say linux is hard to use, and give up.

    I can't understand why anyone would want to use redhat. If I want an easy to use desktop I use Suse or Mandrake - and if I want a rock solid server I use debian or slackware.


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