On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:08:45AM +0000, the hatter wrote: > > will point to perl6, and perl5 will have to be called as perl5. And I > > pick redhat merely because it's a hugely popular distrib, and they do tend > > to want to get the new/cool/geeky options in there quickly, so the other > > distribs will copy, > > I would hesitate to say other distributions "copy" as though Red Hat is > some standard bearer of quality or innovation necessarily...
Oh I didn't mean that in any way to sound like RH is wonderous, grand, nice, or even desirable (what with slackware 8 safely on that tape in my bag) but I suspect that every other distrib that wants to be taken seriously would like to have an install base as large as RH. And regardless of oracles stance, I still see more pre-compiled commercial apps say they run on RH (or 'linux' but they mean RH) than all the others put together. And if it's in RH and getting used, then the other distribs really don't want to leave it out, unless they want to exclude part of their target audience. the hatter
