On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 19:04 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
--- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 21:38, John Summerfied wrote:
Today, I suggest that If you want stability and support, buy RHEL in the
appropriate flavour
If you want stability and cheap, download one of
the EL clones such as
TAO, CENTOS, WBEL (are there more?) If you want the latest and can bear the occasional
breakage, use Fedora
Core 4. If you don't care for stability and/or want to
help refine things,
Fedora Core 5 beta (maybe blend in some rawhide?)
is for you.
But realistically, what people want is close-to-the latest plus some stuff that none of the above includes, like mplayer, xine, xmms with mp3 support, java, flash and the browser plugins for them, etc., so you want FC3 or FC4 with all current updates and a bunch of 3rd party packages. It can be done, but it's not necessarily pretty.
Very well said. Users want a product that just works straight out without having to "search, yum their way, compile their way", etc with all the great stuff " mplayer, xine, xmms with mp3 support, java, flash and the browser plugins for them, etc. "
and since Red Hat is "releasing"/"has released" Fedora on its own, why not have all these things within Fedora. No more trademarks/patents other difficulties to get what users want. What is holding Fedora Back now?
---- licensing restrictions - which of course has nothing to do with Red Hat's involvement or non-involvement with Fedora. ----
By the way is this the longest thread of the year, or will it be Peter Whalley, petsupermarket.uol.br Enquiring minds want to know.
---- who cares?
Craig