On Fri, 2005-30-09 at 13:46 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 12:22, Strong wrote: > > > > Every release of RHL was a > > > tremendous step forward until 8.0 since then there has been one > > What was wrong? > > > > > Linux distributions need to get back to their roots if they > > > want to survive. > > What are those roots the Linux went from? > > Someone who feels this way might like RHEL3 or the free Centos3.x > distribution. This is based on the 2.4 kernel and stuff that's > been running for years but still getting timely bugfix and > security updates. The roots are still around for people who > don't like surprises. > It had nothing to do with the 2.6 kernel or frequent updates. It had to do with dropping support for many of the command line and applications many people used and wanted to continue using. It also involved changes to the kernel that made it impossible for most people to get some of their applications to compile, which is partly why they were dropped by Red Hat. Unfortunately if anyone were to build their own kernel, they would then have to constantly maintain it, whenever security vulnerabilities were discovered. In any case things broke without warning and no remedies were provided by Red Hat, the package was just dropped in the next release. Many of these packages are still maintained and available on other distributions, contrary to many of the excuses given at the time. I can not continue, I feel a rant coming on.
