Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Apr 2003 17:10 UTC
Today, Red Hat Linux 9 has been "officially" released to the masses via the FTP servers, and we host here a mini-interview with Matt Wilson, Manager, Base Operating Systems at Red Hat, Inc.
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What is it with some users that seem to think that more eye-candy and the funkier apps are what make a Linux distro great (or, in this case, worthy of a new major version number)??? I've just read the technical review at GuruLabs http://www.gurulabs.com/RedHatLinux9-review.html and find myself excited and warm and fuzzy with this latest offering from RedHat.
I think that RedHat has done a good job of 1) choosing the next greatest technology to introduce (stable, primarilly) in order for Linux to move forward, and 2) integrating them nicely into their distribution. If they hadn't gone ahead and upgraded to gcc-2.96 when they did, how much longer do you think would it have taken app writers to develop for it? Same goes for gcc-3.2. And now there's NPTL. I have no doubt in my mind that it is stable and tested enough. That's how much confidence I have in RH's engineers.
As for the lack of user-visible apps, what else do you need to add to make it worthy of being called RedHat9? More multimedia apps like Xine and MPlayer? (While I agree that these would be great to have on the distro, I doubt RH has enough resources to allocate for testing and maintaining these apps.) If I were in RH's shoes, I'd probably wait around some more and see which multimedia app would easilly integrate well with their Bluecurve interface before adding it, but it's certainly not a showstopper nor would it stop me from upping the major version one.