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[cobalt-developers] OT Interesting Red Hat News
- Subject: [cobalt-developers] OT Interesting Red Hat News
- From: "Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Jan 25 01:35:10 2001
- List-id: Discussion Forum for developers on Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
"Competition between the Linux distributions has been particularly fierce since
the release of Red Hat 7.0, which has provoked a great deal of controversy,
initially because the C compiler produces binaries incompatible with other Linux
distributions. The argument has escalated to a point well beyond a difference of
opinion over the technicalities, with part of the Linux community suggesting
that Red Hat is using its leading position in the market to marginalise the
other distributions, while Linus Torvalds called Red Hat 7.0 "idiotic",
"broken", and "unusable as a development platform". "