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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It seems as if RedHat is allocating 70% of its resources in developing the core subsystems (ie. kernel, glibc, networking and video subsystems .. IOW, the OS!) and 30% on applications. At least that's what _I_ think and used in making my decision to use and continue to use RedHat.
Can one imagine the alternatives?! I'd really prefer kernel stability over anything else ... and it's nice that they're supporting more hardware as well as better networking (think wireless) as well as video (latest ATI drivers) subsystems. RH9 has only been out a week and already there have been 9 upgraded packages: 5 core (krb5, openssl, samba, sendmail, vsftpd) and 3 applications (balsa, eog, evolution). Adding more applications would also mean allocating more people to maintaining these new apps. RH is already trying to cut down on its resource-eating maintenance jobs (ergo the shorter lifespan for its products).