Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 23 January 2006 09:06, Les Mikesell wrote:
>On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 07:59, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> On 1/23/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'll believe it when I see improvements in the user install
>> > process that match or surpass other distributions.
>>
>> fedora doesn't match or surpass the install process of slackware?
>
>Interesting comparison.  I stopped using slackware as soon
>as another distro became easier to use.  I think it was
>RedHat 4.x that was the first thing that had a fair chance
>of installing automatically on a variety of hardware from
>the CDs.  I don't see a lot of reason for brand loyalty in
>the world of free software.
>
And thats where I have to pipe up Les.  Each of all these competing 
distros would like to be able to carve out enough of a niche in this 
thing that they can make a living selling the services that inevitably 
open up as a market when someone who isn't intimately familiar with 
both the hardware, and the nuances of a missing } in some C code 
installs this thing called linux because he's heard its better than 
Winderz from his friends.

RedHat has done the best job of that so far, but SuSe has made some 
truely great strides in the last 3 years too from what I read on the 
net.  But don't denigrate the efforts of Pat at Slackware, or the other 
one? man show just 50 miles north of me in Morgantown WV, Mepis.  Pat 
has continued on at a pace thats been hard on his health, simply 
because he is a believer.

One of the things that sells a distro to Joe Sixpack, is the enthusiasm 
of a satisfied user he knows and drinks beer with.  In fact, at the 
onsies and twosies level, its probably the single most important factor 
to the Joes of this world.

You are not showing any brand loyalty when you make a statement like 
that, and are simply saying up front that you will take the best deal 
"as long as its free".  Thats not a particularly pleasant image when 
others view it.

Its certainly not an image I want to project in front of myself.  I can 
irritate folks quite well without that, as I've proved here a couple of 
times, but I'm still here, cause like Calahans Bar, its the best place 
to be and I know it.

>--
>  Les Mikesell
>   lesmikesell at gmail.com

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