[NCLUG] a rather different view of the rh thing (a bit about sooze also)

[Matt Taggart]

jbass at dmsd.com writes...

> Michael Milligan <milli at acmeps.com> writes:
> > Case in point, Redhat's inclusion of gcc 3.x as the default compiler 
> > well before it was ready for primetime.  That completely validated the 
> > switch to Debian for me.
> 
> When is a release ready for prime time .... generally when
> development team is with beta test and thinks the benifits
> out wieght the problems in the prior release.
> 
> The GCC team, and a miriad of beta testers declared GCC3.0 was
> prime time ... just like the kernel roll to 2.4 which caused
> problems for people for a year or more, and will again 2.6 rolls
> later this year.
> 
> So when is something ready for prime time? It's not clear to me
> that RedHat's GCC 3.0 call was a bad one, nor their early adoption
> of 2.4.x kernels.

I think the case that Michael is referring to is when they released Red Hat 
Linux 7.0 with a prerelease of GCC 3.0(using the development branch version 
number 2.96) despite being told by the GCC developers that it was not ready 
for use.

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-10-09-005-21-NW-CY-RH

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Matt Taggart
matt at lackof.org