Has Red Hat helped or hurt?

[John Baxter]

In article <mailman.1020840256.20214.python-list at python.org>,
 Andrew McNamara <andrewm at object-craft.com.au> wrote:

> RedHat, if you're listening, it's things like this that are going to
> make me dump RedHat off my systems before long.

In my case, it's things like bogus compiler versions.  The Python is 
livable, in many different ways.  The compiler caused me to go back to 
6.2 for quite a while on my laptop, and kept the company from using 7.0 
at all (the boss also backed 7.0 off his laptop).

  --John