Re: RHL 9 - concerns
joe <[email protected]>
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Andreas-Johann Ulvestad wrote: >Red Hat Linux .0-releases have always been.. well... LOUSY. > This is a bit of folk wisdom which may have had some justification in the past - in any event, we found that 8.0 has been rock solid on our servers - once we replaced the broken rpm and openssh packages. >Sorry guys, >you've done an excellent job all these years, but it's a _well known_ fact >that you never ever run .0-releases. Almost everyone I know (including all >the customers the company I'm working for is operating) will have a >..0-release running on a test system, but never ever run it on a >workstation or server. NEVER servers. > We're not bound by such rules - we evaluate OS releases on their merits, and choose whether or not to deploy them based on their worthiness, not on the version number - In any case it seems superstitious to have a good opinion of a release that you thought would be called 8.1, but to then turn against it after finding that it will be called version 9. >And for workstation use.. sorry, but Phoebe is too way sluggish.. I mean, >10 seconds to launch a gnome terminal with just 3 mozillas and 4 terminals >running on a 1,6GHz machine? come on... > Sounds like configuration issues - Phobe3 gnome desktop is quite snappy here on a compaq presario (PII-500) Joe -- Phoebe-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list