On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:52:58 -0500, David Krider wrote:
I tried 6.2 during the process of deciding to use Red Hat for several years. (It was still to "German" for me then, meaning that even though I told it not to install the German docs, it still stuck a bunch in.) RH 7.3 was awesome, and I expected things to continue in that vein.
Let me begin by saying I personally think Red Hat sucks. Having said that, the following may be a little unfair.
Unfortunately, they started experimenting with the consumer distro, and leaving the "enterprise" versions to be the stable platform.
The least foolish Red Hat users install only the x.3 versions. x.0 always sucks. And they get a little better with each release until they finally work out many of the bugs for x.3. People whose memories go back further than mine in the Red Hat world still swear by, I think, version 4.2. (I guess in those days, they only went to x.2.)
Since then, I have found SuSE 8.2 to be everything I expected RH 8 to have been. I briefly tried 9 to see if they were going to mend their ways, but it only got worse.
I'm really suspicious that you're speaking of the Red Hat x.0 releases. And yes, I've heard other people say that each major release has more drawbacks than its predecessor.
So I'm a SuSE man now, at least until they so something crazy.
SuSE has been my preferred distribution for a while now. I've been using it since 6.2. About the worst thing they've done in that entire time was to eliminate the original YaST; the flame wars which resulted lasted, seemingly, for months. -- David Benfell, LCP benfell@parts-unknown.org --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/resume.html