the dead horse

the dead horse

Posted Nov 14, 2003 20:59 UTC (Fri) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: the dead horse by vblum
Parent article: Review: SuSE Linux 9 (NewsForge)

Well, yeah, Red Hat has always been aggressive with gcc and glibc, and sometimes the kernel, but that's really not what I was talking about.

I've occasionally run distros other than Red Hat and Debian, and I've always been disappointed with the number of "stupid" bugs that get through. Red Hat has fewer packages than some (some that I use), but at least they do some integration testing.

I hate to say it, but the only other distribution that (used) to compare with Red Hat in the area of integration testing was COL. I think some of the others just download the latest and greatest, make an RPM out of it, and do ten minutes of "it works for me" testing.

I can forgive Red Hat for pushing the bleeding edge in areas that benefit the entire community, but it's annoying to have to deal with bugs like some configuration utility core dumping on common hardware.

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