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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:43:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mike A. Harris <mharris@meteng.on.ca>
To: Michael Rothwell <rothwell@office.ilan.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, zapman@interlan.net
Subject: Re: Definitions
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
>I think Redhat has done a stellar job of defending, supporting, developing
>and distributing free (see GNU) software. I think they often wait for
>three reasons:
>
>(1) stability -- they don't want to update a lot of crap and break
>everything too often
>
>(2) licensing -- they support free software, particularly GPL software.
>
>(3) standards -- they make minor kernel patches themselves, but typically
>wait for a feature to be blessed before inclusing it, as opposed to
>TurboLinux and SuSE.
Yes, those sound like fairly believable reasons. Most kernel
patches they've applied as addons are usually extremely requested
things like ISDN, PCMCIA, etc...
I hope they continue to follow their current path, since it works
quite well.
-- Mike A. Harris Linux advocate Computer Consultant GNU advocate Capslock Consulting Open Source advocateTry out Red Hat Linux today: http://www.redhat.com ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2/
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