Why I have chosen Fedora

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

Some interesting view points.

http://it-tactics.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-i-have-chosen-fedora.html

Rahul

[Frank Murphy]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> Some interesting view points.
>
> http://it-tactics.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-i-have-chosen-fedora.html
>
> Rahul

But.
http://it-tactics.blogspot.com/2008/12/sad-thing-about-linux.html

Frank

[Alejandro Acosta]

I don't think the "sad things about linux" should be taken so seriously, the
guy missed a lot of details and recognizes that "I can fix this in some
cases although not an expert on Linux."

If someone likes freedom and i-pods then that person is facing the same
problems that a person who likes cats and dogs is.

Alejandro Acosta
Fedora Ambassador / Chihuahua, MX
[e-mail]
http://alejandroacosta.com

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Frank Murphy
wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Some interesting view points.
> >
> > http://it-tactics.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-i-have-chosen-fedora.html
> >
> > Rahul
>
> But.
> http://it-tactics.blogspot.com/2008/12/sad-thing-about-linux.html
>
> Frank
>
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[Rahul Sundaram]

Alejandro Acosta wrote:
> I don't think the "sad things about linux" should be taken so seriously, 
> the guy missed a lot of details and recognizes that "I can fix this in 
> some cases although not an expert on Linux."
>
> If someone likes freedom and i-pods then that person is facing the same 
> problems that a person who likes cats and dogs is.

Neverthless, ipods are popular and Fedora probably has reasonably good 
support for ipods since the upstream developer involved with library 
support is a Fedora maintainer. It does take some time in between a 
latest hardware   release to actually supporting it. This is the time it 
takes to reverse engineer and figure out what has changed. It is usually 
much faster in cases where the vendor is co-operative and provides the 
specs or even takes part in driver development as even AMD and Atheros 
does for their 3D chipsets these days.

Linux actually has the broadest hardware support out of the box among 
any operating system in the market.

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/10/how-linux-supports-more-device.html

Rahul

[Frank Murphy]

Alejandro Acosta wrote:
> I don't think the "sad things about linux" should be taken so seriously,
> the guy missed a lot of details

And you will fill in the blanks?

and recognizes that "I can fix this in
> some cases although not an expert on Linux."

For him and you maybe.
> If someone likes freedom and i-pods

But the person reading the article, may not know of freedom.
Just someone looking for a way out, and "shucks".
Here's a "user" telling him his toys won't work.

then that person is facing the same
> problems that a person who likes cats and dogs is.

Many pet lovers have both cats and dogs,
they even clean each other (human not included).

Just playing Devil's Advocate.

Frank

[Alejandro Acosta]

Please don't take this the wrong way,

My points are that you can not make a serious judgement (on any OS) from an
issue that is -the way I see it- ambiguous. Given the information he
provided you can have the same problems with any OS and he can not tell it
is a bad thing just because he couldn't . On the other hand he did fix some
things even though he claims not being an expert, which is a good thing for
this or any other OS.

If you love pets and you have cats and dogs in the same house you are doing
this knowing in advance that this is no easy thing to do, but you love pets
and you're willing to take these risks and to walk a way that  doesn't seem
easy at the beginning.

I hope this will end this thread 'cause it looks like I'm the devil and my
lawyer isn't defending me, just kidding Frank.

Even more: I WISH I HAD AN I-POD !!!

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Frank Murphy
wrote:
> Alejandro Acosta wrote:
> > I don't think the "sad things about linux" should be taken so seriously,
> > the guy missed a lot of details
>
> And you will fill in the blanks?
>
> and recognizes that "I can fix this in
> > some cases although not an expert on Linux."
>
> For him and you maybe.
> > If someone likes freedom and i-pods
>
> But the person reading the article, may not know of freedom.
> Just someone looking for a way out, and "shucks".
> Here's a "user" telling him his toys won't work.
>
> then that person is facing the same
> > problems that a person who likes cats and dogs is.
>
> Many pet lovers have both cats and dogs,
> they even clean each other (human not included).
>
> Just playing Devil's Advocate.
>
> Frank
>
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[Máirín Duffy]

Alejandro Acosta wrote:
> Even more: I WISH I HAD AN I-POD !!!

Ew. Really? Why?

I love my Sansa, it plays ogg and flac and works out-of-the-box with 
Fedora and mounts all nicely in rhythmbox...

~m

[Alejandro Acosta]

I didn't have a good reason other than they're popular as Rahul stated  plus
I wasn't well informed, now I have an even stronger reason to buy sansa.
Thank you Máirin,

Maybe sometime you could tell me about the model you chose and your own
experience, out  of the list of course

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Máirí­n Duffy wrote:
> Alejandro Acosta wrote:
> > Even more: I WISH I HAD AN I-POD !!!
>
> Ew. Really? Why?
>
> I love my Sansa, it plays ogg and flac and works out-of-the-box with Fedora
> and mounts all nicely in rhythmbox...
>
> ~m
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[Jef Spaleta]

2009/1/28 Alejandro Acosta :
> If someone likes freedom and i-pods then that person is facing the same
> problems that a person who likes cats and dogs is.

That problem should be solvable with with the appropriate genenic engineering.

"Good ... we'll have a miracle hybrid with the loyalty of a cat and
the cleanliness of a dog!" --Homer Simpson

-jef

[Gaurav Prabhu]

--- On Wed, 28/1/09, Rahul Sundaram  wrote:
From: Rahul Sundaram 
Subject: Why I have chosen Fedora
To: "For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base" , "Ladislav Bodnar" 
Date: Wednesday, 28 January, 2009, 6:56 PM

Hi

Some interesting view points.

http://it-tactics.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-i-have-chosen-fedora.html

Rahul

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