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Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning
From: Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:59:22 -0600 (CST)
<rofl> cool thing about sun lately is they just plain tell ya, don't use ours, we aren't gonna fix and maintain it now, go build yer own from source. They did that with ftpd <wu_ftpd mind you> and I believe recommend the same now for sendmail. And a slackware admin could follow that mindset easy. Thanks, Ron DuFresne On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just look at the "latest" sendmail available for Solaris 8. Far worse than the complaints about Debian stable. So, don't complain about Fedora. You don't like it - fix it Mr. Know-it-all. It's GPL and /community/ based. You want to use it? You want it to suit your needs? /Participate/ in the community! You don't like the updater? You might contribute RPMS for apt-get or the Mandrake updater - ported to the Fedora back-end. Maybe a secure transport for Kickstart - with the rpmfind db? The sky is the limit - - if you don't wait for other people to take you there, and /complian/ that they aren't! Jeremiah Cornelius On Tuesday 04 November 2003 08:22, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:25:55 EST, Eric Bowser said:Fedora seems like it will be unstable/difficult to patch/*insert whatever here* in an intentional effort to extract money from users for the enterprise version. I don't debate the business sense behind their decisions, but they have made a viable OS available for years, gotten everybody addicted, and then replaced it with your choice of headaches, or a pay-to-play product. Don't drug dealers do that?On the other hand, commercial OS's tend to be *really* static, without much innovation - look at IBM's z/OS, there's still remnants in there from OS/360 in 1964. People complain that Solaris hasn't picked up <whatever> that other vendors have been doing for years. That's the price of stability. You should be glad that RedHat is willing to finance a distro where the Next Big Thing can develop, even if it isn't their official product. It's quite possibly the best thing that could have happened to *both* RedHat and Fedora lines - now there's no longer the big stability/innovation conflict that having one product line trying to do both had.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/p/2BJi2cv3XsiSARAnoIAKDJPfwlMO5mzRU9a3vYfbnNr4ZZggCffV82 UW4e0cYFUfuOnzxmWqLxNaE= =Y/oP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Re: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning, (continued)
- Re: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Cael Abal (Nov 04)
- Re: Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning petard (Nov 04)
- Re: Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Nov 04)
- Re: Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Steffen Kluge (Nov 04)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Joshua Levitsky (Nov 03)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 03)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Eric Bowser (Nov 04)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 04)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Jeremiah Cornelius (Nov 04)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Ron DuFresne (Nov 04)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 04)
- Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Jeremiah Cornelius (Nov 04)