Redhat 8

George Toft plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:29:06 -0400


Looks like their adopting Debian's attitude.  Bummer.

For a company whose stated goal is to take on Microsoft on the Desktop,
leaving this stuff out is not the way to do it.

George


Craig White wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 17:49, yarddog wrote:
> >
> >
> > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1842&page=all
> >
> > Disappointing.
> -----
> Not at all
> 
> I'm not gonna be an apologist for redhat but all of her gripes related
> to / involved the closed source stuff that RedHat has steadfastly
> refused to distribute or support...
> 
> nVidia graphics cards
> Flash
> Java
> Acrobat Reader
> MP3 code
> 
> her other gripes related to xfree86 which is something we live with as
> there aren't any other choices. I mean come on now...how many of us have
> a 24" Sony monitor running at 1920 x 1200 at 90Hz (or 73Hz)?
> 
> She raves about the responsiveness and their implementation of GCC-3.2
> and how much better it performs and I'm encouraged.
> 
> Craig
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