Re: [LI] Re: Buggy RH 6.1

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <r.suresh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake Atul Chitnis -

> > request for you to rtfm first, before criticizing the PCQ CD <g>)
> Don't have to - you already did. ;-)

:)

> Our biggest pain in life is the criticism people heap on our CD based > on an upgrade on a bad/incomplete prior installation. 

IIRC - CHIP mag is the main offender here :)  Most of the complaints
have been from users of the RH6 distro that came on the Chip CD.  

I doubt if anybody running the SAMS.NET (RH6 Unleashed) distro face any
problems (except in a few cases - where paths have changed, especially
with third party utilities).  

> <rantmode> 
> and that it *must* be the other side (in this case the "PCQ CD") that > is to blame.

Perhaps PCQ users can try suing CHIP mag for maligning their rep by
shipping one of the lousiest builds of RH6 ever :)

> Just because we tried to give *more* than what comes with RHL 6.1 does > not make RHL 6.1 bad/buggy. 

Well, PCQ was, at worst, sort of hasty (can't blame you guys, you put
that distro out in record time) :)  

As regards RedHat 6.1 proper, PCQ did a superb job - even if people
still don't bother reading PCQ and the http://www.exocore.com/linux and
post stuff like the DNS glitch to the list ...

<rantmode>

However, re the third party utilities you shipped in the CD, there are
some legit bones people have to pick.  Lots of the stuff PCQ shipped in
the RH6.1 CD (Abiword, say) is in still in Alpha.  

Half the features in Abiword are disabled, and using other features (say
insert - page break) causes a core dump.  So, I was compelled to
reinstall Corel Word Perfect 8 from a previous CD (the one with xsis.rpm
on it)
Other stuff (like the Galway HTML editor PCQ shipped in the December CD)
give some GtK widget errors on compilation (at least two or three
people  (including me) have reported this - and I am running a default
Gnome Workstation install).  Fixes welcome.
</rantmode>

Don't get me wrong :)  Those who (like me) are not into kernel hacking
and R&D, and want RH as a daily use server / desktop o/s - such folks
will appreciate getting stable, non crashable versions of software (at
least late beta / final releases).

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