fp5/Linux 2.6 -- anyone got it running?

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005, Fairlight wrote:
>Is it just me, or did Jay Ashworth say:
>> 
>> Well, FWIW, precisely what annoys you is what RH *does not* do in it's
>> Enterprise release trains.  For precisely that reason.  That's almost
>> exactly *why* they increased the release frequency on the non-RHEL
>> distros: to force people for whom it would be a problem to shell every
>> year.
>
>Yes, except RH can't even back-port patches into perl without making it
>segv, which it is -not- supposed to do under any circumstances.  Especially
>on anything as trivial as int(), return(), or sort().  And I -know- it's in
>sort(), because it makes no sense that it'd be in the other two.  But they
>haven't fixed it in darned near a year in RHEL3.  I'd have to see RHEL4 to
>tell you if it's fixed.

That's why we use OpenPKG.org for berkeley database, perl, python, apache,
etc.  since it's totally independent of whatever the vendor provides.

>RH's track record on kernels in RHEL3 has been less than stellar as well.
>
>For a company I used to defend, they've gone to hell in a handcart--and it
>has nothing to do with their financial moves.  Their software started
>diving in earnest at RHL 8.0.
>
>If they're going to stay with a release for ages, it should at least be
>stable, ya know?

I still have Xenix installation floppies if you want something that was
stable for ages :-).

Bill
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