[TriLUG] Who runs Red Hat Linux and KDE

[karl thiele]

Matt Wilson wrote:

>On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 01:33:12PM -0400, zzd wrote:
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>I hope that people don't find my comments in any way aggressive or
>offensive.  There were some factual errors (regarding things like
>missing packages on ftp.kde.org) and these things need to be set
>straight.
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I would hope no one finds your comment offensive. I do not. missing 
packages. humm. Well I did not run checksums on the 3.1.2 src at RH but 
I would assume those are identical with what KDE.org has because I see 
no documentation on what they are. If they are not the same thing (RH 
enhanced)  then something ought to be mentioned, like the what/where/why 
so people are not ignorant of what they are doing with the sources from 
RH.  I think I will give those a try. RH just gets a bit terse, even 
using support.


opps going off course---
 RH now tends to suggest the obvious on responces to problem reports, 
and it takes a couple of emails before the real fault anaylsis is done. 
This is a result of building a formal tiered support system, it wastes a 
lot of time, but I imagine the volume is high now.  I am sad to say this 
but RH/SUSE/other big distros are not the open source friendly companies 
they once where, they have to make money on a completely different 
scale. I liked it a lot better when I bought my first CD from Bob Young 
across a card table at the first linux conference, I think at MCNC, some 
place like that over in rtp. But it is nice to read those from RH who 
follow the local lugs and respond, I appreciate that.

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>Cheers,
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>Matt
>msw at redhat.com
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>Matt Wilson
>Manager, Base Operating Systems
>Red Hat, Inc.
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