OT: printing filepro on SERIAL PORT Linux

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On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 02:16:59PM -0800, Enrique Arredondo, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> 
> There is no planned support for Red Hat Fedora. Remember that Fedora is
> described as a development platform for future operating systems, not as a
> production-quality operating system in itself.

That's actually true.  And it's obviously $$$ that makes people ignore that
little tidbit.

Let's put it this way...  If you ran something on a beta copy of Vista and
it didn't work, you have no grounds to actually complain to 'x' vendor that
they don't support that platform, since the platform itself was never meant
to be doing what you're trying to do--ie., use it in a production
environment.

I was as ticked as anyone about the way RHL was scrapped and the rest of
RH's moves.  But the times change and you have to adapt -sensibly-.  Ignore
that at your own peril.  RHL was one thing when they stood behind it.  Now
that they're largely leeching off Fedora and commercialising it, and with
the level of support I've seen displayed (really sub-par), I don't even
trust RHEL 100%, much less the development base from which it springs.
Anyone that can screw perl up so that it segv's on either sort(), int(), or
return() like they did with RHEL3 (still uncorrected to this day) has
issues.  That the commercial version had the issue and there was never a
fix is one thing.  That people would run on a dist that is the basis of
that that has -no- official support...well, you don't pays your money and
you takes your chances.

Whether BE is or isn't supported on Fedora makes no difference to me.
The status of Fedora itself is at issue here, specifically because -you-
brought it up.  And I can't draw fault with the rationale of their
statement.

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