Re: Another FOSS Gem

On 24 May 2024 17:05:11 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

Le 19-05-2024, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> a écrit :

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Maybe because Red Hat is all about the latest, greatest.

 
What are you speaking of? Red Hat is obsolete by design. Everything
provided by Red Hat is old.

Let me clarify -- the upstream distros of RHEL. Fedora Rawhide is cutting
edge and frequently broken. The more stable stuff makes it to Fedora,
which has frequent updates. Yesterday's 'sudo dnf upgrade' upgraded 35
packages, removed kernel 6.8.7 and installed kernel 6.8.10. That's a
typical day. I don't nkow if Centos Stream still exists, but eventually
Fedora makes it into RHEL.  Since Red Hat supports Fedora I tend to refer
to the whole family as Red Hat.

Back when it was Red Hat Linux the gcc 2.96 fiasco soured me on the brand.
2.96 was a beta branch working its way toward gcc 3.0 but RH released it
anyway.

Personally, I run Debian on my development machine.