From the artical
Now, you don’t expect much from a beta. What the Labs found, though was much more serious than the kind of fit and finish problems you usually find in a beta. What you really don’t expect are show-stoppers – problems so big that it’s clear there’s no way the product’s going to ship anytime soon. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what they found.
More at Linux-Watch
Well, at least if people want a no-nonsense OS like RH, they’ve got CentOS…
Um, WTF? Red Hat has used YUM for ages, and it works perfectly on RHEL 4.4.
[ot]That’s what CentOS is, B, just a re-package of RHEL with the RH logos removed.[/ot]
My servers use yum exclusively, and they have zero issues getting regular updates and installing new software. From the article:
Yeah. What do the beta repositories have anything to do with the quality of YUM? Up2date has been pretty obsolete for a while now, and YUM has been some of the best-in-class for a while. I’m no Red Had apologist (support Reiser3, guys! Come on now!), but bashing YUM as a package manager because the mirrors online for the beta packages were overloaded is just asinine. Apparently, eWeek editors are UNIX-challenged. That or this article is intended as FUD…