A chuckle about FC3

[Michael Hipp]

Collins Richey wrote:

> I found a few crappy things about FC3 for desktop use, but nothing
> really unstable even using the much maligned GNOME.

I've always found Linux itself to be utterly stable. FC3 included. The 
instability has always been in the gui stuff (Gnome and KDE primarily).

> If the Fedora
> folks would just get off the Mandrake bandwagon and not start every
> daemon known to mandkind ....

Yes. It seems like this was the way distros were done 5+ years ago and RH has 
just never changed. And dumb things like starting the Japanese font stuff on a 
box installed as US English only. Or starting ISDN services on a box used in 
North America (where ISDN is relatively rare - unlike Europe).

Seems like the newer distros have taken a critical look at this and are doing 
a better job. Ubuntu's approach of starting essentially no services and 
claiming that you therefore don't even need a firewall (since there's nothing 
for crackers to aim at) is particularly interesting.

Michael