Am Fr, den 21.11.2003 schrieb Benjamin J. Weiss um 16:37: > I've been using RH since 7.2 (okay, I know a bunch of you have been using it > lots longer), but I can't remember EVER seeing this number of posts on a RHL > release about things that are non-functional right out of the box. Sure, > plenty of security patches would show up, but at least for the most part, if > you installed from the CD, things would *work* even before you got out to > the up2date site and got stuff patched. I don't see much more problems as with previous versions. There is much more traffic here as on the old Red Hat lists. So you will see much more postings - in absolute numbers - regarding problems - purely statistical. The relative frequencies may be the same as before. > I'm sure many of you are on both the fedora and redhat lists. Notice the > difference in the tenor and number of posts? In an average day on the > redhat list, I see around 100-150 posts, mostly "how do I configure this" or > "what package does this" or other sysadmin type stuff. Here, I see 300-400 > posts a day, with "this doesn't work when installed" or "this won't install" > or "up2date/apt/yum doesn't work after a standard install", etc. There is one big issue namely up2date and yum repositories. Red Hat made the shift so switch from rhn to a separate fedora repository quite late so during the tests not all bugs were found. But if you use the core software and use pretty compatible Hardware, I don't see more probs as usual. Peter
