A pox on Fedora and in their hat too

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Now now, dep.  You're going to get Llama's 28-year-old temper tantrum
started.  Fedora is good for some things... what I would like to know,
but there are a couple guys I work with who think it's ok... some of the
time.

My biggest complaint is that they've built on ineptitudes which RH had
from the start and made them, well, worse.  For instance, RH has never
"gone the extra mile".  For instance, on a stock install, I can install
the latest Webmin on SuSE and it uses SSL automagically, RH not without
first installing Perl::SSLeay.  There are many packages which do not get
~ installed by default or compile-time options which are included by
default.  I like integrating things, I don't care to recompile all the
time.  While I see the virtues to compiling my own code, I do not wish
to explain that in a "proof of concept" report to non-Linux geeks.

As my dear friend, Blue, would say "Touche"  (which I believe he
internally redefines as "good point").

dep wrote:
| um.
|
| i've read the fedora discussions here, and i'm wondering if maybe there
| is a possibility that ought to be considered: fedora sucks.
|
| seems to me that those who want a free distribution could get the
| bare-bones cd images from a real distribution, then upgrade by ftp to
| the whole show, or grab one of the free distributions, such as debian
| -- screw their politics; if they have free speech, so do we. or spring
| the few bucks for a distribution that comes in a box.
|
| fedora is, seems to me, the crippled free version of a distro that ought
| to be nobody's first choice anyway.

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