Re: Red Hat EW Licensing

[David Krider <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Wood wrote:
> We'll I hate to think that RH has made RH9 (and future releases) so glitchy
> on purpose so that VARs will be forced to only support its enterprise
> editions: AS,ES,WS.
>
> I'm only guessing that there probably won't be much difference between
> rawhide quality and RH10 the next go around.  All efforts will go into
> enterprise products.  In essense, RH Linux will become (or now is) nothing
> more than beta quality platforms for RH Enterprise Linux.

You know, I was going to start a new thread on this, but this is a 
perfect place to attach these comments.

I just spent about 2 hours trying to get Quicktime playing on my RHL9 
workstation. For reference, my test .mov is the latest "Animatrix" 
movie. I have installed mplayer, and so far, I thought it was great, but 
there's nothing in the world I can seem to do to get it to play files in 
a browser. Which led me to install pre-made binaries for vlc. Both 
players lock up on the Animatrix film. Finally I decided to install 
Crossover Plugin, which I own, but wanted to get away from to use 
"native" tools, and it's buggered on RHL9.

I was just about to reboot into Windows XP, which my 
previously-mentioned massive company has already paid for, when I 
remembered how great I had it with Red Hat 7.3. Everything "just 
worked." I got all fired up and switched everything over to RHL9, but 
I'm thinking I made a big mistake. Almost everything I'm trying to do is 
frustrated somehow. (See my other thread on gkrellm and sensors for 
instance.) I wasted a week with being frustrated with 8.0 too. I thought 
everything would have been ironed out by now.

I know that Red Hat is pushing the envelope on Linux distros, and I have 
been thinking that this is a good thing. All I need is a recompile, 
right? But there's too many loose ends for me at this point, and I'm 
starting to get really sick of it. I think I'm going to just bag it and 
go back to 7.3 with Ximian Desktop. Maybe I'll try again with RHL10. (Or 
what*ever* they call it next time, maybe RHL XP!)

I've whined about it before, but I have to say it again: Red Hat was the 
perfect distro (IMNTBHO) before this big re-alignment. In fact, there 
was nothing I didn't like about it. I've tried SuSE, Debian, Gentoo, and 
Mandrake because of these moves, and I still think Red Hat beats them, 
if but slightly, at the moment. So once 7.3 falls off support, I don't 
know what I'm going to do.

Regards,
dk