Where are we going in the Fedora development?
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Nov 24 23:14:54 UTC 2004
On Thursday 25 November 2004 00:07, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> Once again I want to share something but don't want to start a rant.
>
> I finally got FC3 installed and have serious questions as to where
> this Fedora Development is going. Are changes being made for good
> reason or just to be different? Is there good reason to have two
> panels on the screen (at top and bottom) instead of one, two
That's Gnome 2.8. Compare with Ubuntu, a Debian-based distro. It's a single-CD
install (but essentiall all of Debian downloadable after installation).
It also does some things better than FC does.
> essentially equivalent menus under different icons, logout hidden in a
> different place, etc.
> My reaction to having changes made in resolv.conf disappear after a
> reboot was not a positive one. Luckily I had a hint of why this was
> happening in a previous posting.
dhcp has done that for ever. pppd has too, but that's configurable.
>
> I could go on with changes like udev and /media in place of /mnt but
/media is LSB compliance. Debian does it too. Previously RH and Debian
differed.
> you get the idea. Are these changes caused by a overwhelming goal that
> trumps the confusion they cause.
>
> In the back of my mind I would like Windows users to switch to Linux seeing
> it can be presented in as friendly appearance as Windows is to them.
Windows changes too. Get new Windows, likely you'll need new apps. Sometimes,
get new Windows SP & need new apps.
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Cheers
John
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