--- Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
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.
Ok! We can still get all the goodies, no problem a little bit of work. I can live with that, but other people want the cake and eat it too. Thank you for the explanation. I thought that the Fedora Foundation upon release from Red Hat's grip, would allow for inclusion of the programs that could not be added because of licensing issues.
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?
Just a curiosity! No damage or hard feelings intended. :)
Craig
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Best Regards,
Antonio
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