Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-09 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 08 July 2010, Seth Bardash wrote: To the Linux Community at Large: I reported to this list back in January, 2010 that the standard x86_64 kernel, when built from the src.rpm and modified for AMD K8 / K10 Extensions would not build. I reported this here and to Red Hat via Bugzilla

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-09 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 09 July 2010, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 at 8:16pm, Whit Blauvelt wrote On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:35:47PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: It has been stated many times and on many fora that Red Hat's bugzilla is not a mechanism for support. They are under

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-09 Thread Seth Bardash
On 7/8/2010 6:25 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 07/08/10 2:39 PM, Seth Bardash wrote: To the Linux Community at Large: I reported to this list back in January, 2010 that the standard x86_64 kernel, when built from the src.rpm and modified for ... I don't understand how you think that this is a

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 at 8:32am, Seth Bardash wrote My intent was to inform and hear from people that had similar issues and to learn what they might have done to work around them. Not to cause a debate on business practices, criticize Red Hat or inflame the Centos community. I appreciate your

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-09 Thread Drew
And I'd still be interested (as in, genuinely curious, not skeptical) to hear what sorts of applications benefit from optimized kernels (HPC?  I/O intense?) and what kind of performance increases one can get. I'd be interested as well. I can see HPC applications potentially benefiting but what

[CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-08 Thread Seth Bardash
To the Linux Community at Large: I reported to this list back in January, 2010 that the standard x86_64 kernel, when built from the src.rpm and modified for AMD K8 / K10 Extensions would not build. I reported this here and to Red Hat via Bugzilla ID number 558367. RH AS / Centos 5.3 worked

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 at 3:39pm, Seth Bardash wrote I am beginning to wonder if Red Hat is getting too big? Or that it just does not care. Other ideas less pleasant come to mind Today, the old bug was still marked as new (6+ months and counting). I entered a new bug report for RH 5.5 for

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-08 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:35:47PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: It has been stated many times and on many fora that Red Hat's bugzilla is not a mechanism for support. They are under no obligation to address issues raised there. Is it nice when they do? Absolutely. There are two

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/08/10 2:39 PM, Seth Bardash wrote: To the Linux Community at Large: I reported to this list back in January, 2010 that the standard x86_64 kernel, when built from the src.rpm and modified for ... I don't understand how you think that this is a bug. you modified something and it broke.

[CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Whit Blauvelt wrote: This is an implicit contract that runs across all open source software projects. implicit contract ? You know 'Whit' -- you deserve congratulations You were just promoted into the 'hot air windbag' 'internet lawyer' 'I am entitled to it, just

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 at 8:16pm, Whit Blauvelt wrote On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:35:47PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: It has been stated many times and on many fora that Red Hat's bugzilla is not a mechanism for support. They are under no obligation to address issues raised there. Is it

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-08 Thread Keith Keller
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 08:16:05PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: Besides, the poster here is making a serious point about Red Hat losing sales. If the OP is making a serious point about RH losing sales, perhaps he should tell RedHat about it, instead of posting trollbait to an unrelated mailing