Am I wasting my time with Red Hat?

[Bern]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:58 am, Christian Herzyk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > From: kde-admin at mail.kde.org [mailto:kde-admin at mail.kde.org]On Behalf Of
> > Mick Szucs
> >
> > On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:49, gabriel wrote:
> > > On March 21, 2003 06:42 am, Martin Thomas wrote:
> > > > Am I being too harsh on Red Hat, or would it be better if I switched
> > > > to a differant distro?
> > >
> > > yes
> > > you're wasting your time
> > >   (bring on the flames)
> > > redhat has refused to keep its desktop software up to date
> > > favouring in most cases gnome.  often, if you want a software
> >
> > upgrade, you
> >
> > > have to upgrade your entire distro... which often requires a
> >
> > complete wipe
> >
> > > and re-install.
> >
> > One thing I'm curious about, though.  There are certainly lots of
> > reasons to not stick with Redhat.  The one that ultimately had me switch
> > to Mandrake was their lack of support for and the damage that they did
> > to KDE.  I wanted to be able to move forward with KDE releases as they
> > came out, rather than wait the months and months that it seemed it would
> > take Redhat to come out with binaries for the newest flavour of KDE.
> >
> > Today, however, there are KDE 3.1.1 binaries available for Redhat 8.0,
> > and still no binaries for Mandrake 9?  What's up?
>
> Well, some distris are faster some are slower, I think with 3.1 Mandrake
> was rather quick to deliver the rpms.
>
> To give my 2cents to this topic:
> If you want to develop on and for KDE forget RH go with Mandrake or SuSE.
> If you are familiar with Linux, and want to escape the rpm hell, either go
> with Debian or have a look at Gentoo.
>
> Regards
>
> Christian

OTOH, there is always Slackware.
Thats my 2.2cents (including GST).

-- 
Regards,
Bern
http://www.p-two.net
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