| Matthew Rosewarne on 4 Dec 2007 01:57:54 -0000 |
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On Monday 03 December 2007, Stephen Gran wrote: > Not trying to be argumentative, but have you actually looked at the code > for these things redhat pushes? pm-utils is still mostly a joke, > network manager can barely manage to blow it's nose without wetting the > bed, and so on. NetworkManager may be limited, and was quite buggy earlier on, but I would say it beats the pants off of what we had before, which wasn't really much. I find for basic tasks it works very well, and is *much* easier than anything else I've used. > Not trying to be massively cynical, but I think I'll still take > community supported code over corporate self indulgence any day. And I > would really love to see people get back to thinking about real > architecture issues, instead of just tacking a gui on top of a poorly > thought out subsystem (yes, network manager, I'm looking at you). Oh, certainly. Most of this stuff is being hosted a FreeDesktop.org, but Red Hat tends to hire people who hack on it. I'd say that's a lot better than developing a replacement WM & X server in secret, then suddenly dumping it on everyone when releasing a new version of your distro... Attachment:
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