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To: tfk who wrote (1072)	2/21/1999 5:57:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 2615

Well, I don't know if forking the code is a correct description of Redhat's problem. This is how I describe it. Redhat is growing and hiring very bright eager beaver young folks. Now all of these new hires have the best of intentions and no experience with large scale software development programs like a Linux release like Redhat. It seem to me that these well meaning wunder kids zealously go about fixing whats not broken and it looks snazier and is clunky as hell. Usually an artefact of the dumbimg up of what was worked on is that two or three totally unrelated items are completely busted. Because of this and in-spite of the fact that I first bought Redhat releases from Bob Young in his kitchen, I tried SuSE. Well it's ok but I just can't get into how a German mind is organized. This may be my failing, but I don't have a clue as to how to learn to think SuSE. Now in conversations I had with Robert G. Brown he mentioned he liked the simplicity of the init scripts of Slackware. I decided to invest 1.99 and revisit Slackware. Now I used Slackware many years ago before Bob Young recommended Redhat which when I tried it the time seemed a lot friendlier than Slackware. Now I've done a Slackware install and I'm quite pleased at it simple and straightforward install. It seemed that the slackware install was amazingly well thought out and logical. I found so far that every thing I've tried to install has worked in one shot. It's still early in my eval but Robert G Browns observations seem to be bullseye. Oh, during the install I was able to completely set up my network, but slackware did not detect my 3c509 card. When I rebooted the network didn't work as the 3c509 module was not being installed. I went to /etc/rc.d and low and behold there was rc.modules. I vi-ed rc.modules and uncommented /sbin/modprobe 3c509 and gee my network is working fine. TOm Watson tosiwme.

To: tfk who wrote (1072)	2/21/1999 10:41:00 PM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Respond to of 2615

tfk: I disagree, they are not maintaining the generally accepted directory structures, the upgrade of the kernel from "kernel.org" is cumbersome and not made easy (on purpose) to promote upgrades through the purchase of RedHat revisions, and they are continually trying to generate there own standard related to several software components which they are developing when there are existing GNU programs that exist and can be quite readily used. In general, I find they are trying to somewhat close Linux up more than keep it open.