Red Hat Co-Founder Bob Young Resigns 146
Anonymous Coward's Cousin writes "Yahoo news is reporting that Red Hat co-founder Bob Young has resigned from the board. From the article: 'In a funny way, my resignation is perhaps the finest compliment I can pay to everyone associated with Red Hat today, I have complete confidence in the future of the company'"
Saw it coming a mile off. (Score:5, Informative)
--stevo32 (Stephen Clement)
Here is the Press Release on RHAT's Website (Score:2, Informative)
Re:RedHat == Linux (Score:4, Informative)
apt-get is a package download/install tool that resolves dependencies. apt-get is not better than RPM... they can't really be compared because they serve very different purposes.
As a Fedora user, I use apt-get, yum, yumex, up2date and synaptic (mainly the last two). I haven't had "RPM hell" since about RedHat 7-8.
If you get the opportunity - give a modern RH based distro a go. Good steps have been made.
Re:RedHat == Linux (Score:1, Informative)
RPM is a big culprit of this, i might add - you don't fully get how ugly that packaging system is until you try something better, IMHO (apt-get and Portage comes to mind). This is such a load of crap !
RPM is a package standard, just as DEB is.
apt-get is a package manager that resolves dependencies automatically when you install a given package. Yes, it is good. And yes, it came before any RPM equivalent. But there have been equivalents FOR YEARS in the RPM world. Never tried urpmi from Mandrake/Mandriva ? SUSE and Connectiva also have similar programs.
And Portage is also a package manager to resolve dependencies. And it now uses RPMs instead of their previous custom package, IIRC.
So Pleease, stop talking about thinks you have no idea about.
Stephane
Re:Bob Young a corporate Linux pioneer (Score:1, Informative)
Re:thoughts from an employee (Score:5, Informative)
Regards,
Steve
Re:RedHat == Linux (Score:3, Informative)
The solution is simple: Don't install any RPMs that aren't from your vendor. Compile everything else from source or create your own package. The advantage that Debian has was that there were just so many packages already pre-compiled and packaged. Gentoo seems to get around the problem by compiling at installation therefore being able to customize for what is on the system.
I'm not using RedHat anymore, but I still consider RPM to be the best packaging format because it keeps a lot of useful metadata about the files. For example, I can run rpm -V perl to test the perl package for problems. It'll verify the size, MD5 checksum, permissions, type, owner and group of each file in the package and let me know if anything is out of place. Having this function has saved my ass once. I haven't found anything like that in Debian yet. According to Gentoo's docs [gentoo.org], "Portage will not check if the package you want to remove is required by another package." I wouldn't even call that package management.