Hello,
> 1) is Red Hat interested in solidifying their position in the business
> market?
>
> 2) among Linux users in the office, is having a dual-boot machine with NT
> on disk 1 and Red Hat on disk 2 a common configuration?
>
> 3) will the fact that the Official Red Hat 6.1 is totally and utterly
> broken for these setups alienate the IT guys and encourage them to look
> elsewhere (Caldera, SuSE, etc)?
>
> i think the answer to all three questions is yes.
I think it is yes, a significant percentage, no. As long
as the problem is known and there is a working workaround,
the IT guys will simply say some 4-letter words
and to use it - the pain of switching distributions
is normally worse than the need to get an updated
install disk. I can assure you that SuSE has
its problems too - the last version I installed
had a nasty bug in NFS setup etc. - and the
broken installer is not the same thing as
broken distribution. We all make mistakes.
However I have a strong feeling that the quality control
at Red Hat is an issue that needs to be adressed real
soon. I have yet to install RH 6.1 (BTW, on the machine
with NT dual-boot :-)), but I heard several reports
on local mailing lists mentioning instability
of the new installer (I say to everybody "don't
write it here, write it to RH's bug reporting
system"). A simple query of bugzilla reveals
that there indeed are many problems with
the new installer.
I worked on localization of the RH. The installer
strings changed frequently till the localization
deadline, so I think there was quite a bit of
code written these days. After the translation
deadline the release was announced in several
days - it really surprised me. IMHO too soon
to allow the QC team to really try the things
with the same data as on the official CDs.
My question to RH is: how many days there were
between a code freeze, where NOTHING but bugfixes
are allowed, and the release? Do you plan to
change this for the next release?
Regards
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Stano
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