[ale] RH Upgrade

[Marvin Dickens]

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 11:20, aaron wrote:

> I haven't explored RH9 personally, but the bits I've read suggest that it 
> continues down the same [sorry] GUI path as 8.0. I think all the shortcomings 
> stem from the RH effort to crunch Gnome and KDE into a clone minded, locked 
> down "Trade Mark" look and feel conglomeration. 

My own observations gained from experience with RH 8.0and 9.0:

The trademark look and feel thing is not limited to the gui. RH has
introduced there own versions of quite a few libraries into gcc. As a
matter of fact, a number of v4l drivers don't work right will 8.0 and 
will not even compile with 9.0 (although, in all fairness, changes in
the kernel contribute to about 20 to 30% of the problem in 9.0). 

I've been helping with the spca50x driver (V4L driver for sunplus based
webcams and camera's) and every "bug", with the exception of *ONE* that
has been reported in the last 2 or 3 months has been submitted by RH
users. Thing is, these are not so much bugs as lib compatibility
problems that are the result of changes that middle management F**kTards
at RH made to libraries (For no good reason, I might add...)

Best

M. Dickens   

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