Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 201.211.45.202]
on May 15, 2008 05:03 AM
Fedora has a reputation for innovation? I'll have to disagree with
that. As a linux user and administrator I can't see what so many
people see in this distribution.
To begin with the installation, it seems absurd to me a DVD or a {5,6}
cds installation system if everybody knows that a full system upgrade
is necesary after a fresh install. If you decide to install some not
so basic packages for example, it ends up installing and putting in
your default runlevel things like apache, postresql, cups, bind,
openldap, postfix... are you for real? Why on earth would a system
admin, a developer or a simple user want all this installed and
running using resources that u could probably put to a better
use?. There's nothing better than a simple and small installation like
the one other distros (arch, debian, ubuntu) provide, and from there
you can go ahead tune up your box the way you like it.
The package manager and packages are a headache formula. Yes! there
are better, simpler and more versatile things such as archlinux
package manager which lets you install really up-to-date packages and
even modify any package you want. I've created ebuilds (for gentoo),
arch packages and rpms and believe me! rpms shouldn't even exist any
more.
Package are usually old in Fedora in comparison with other distros
(arch, gentoo) and the way it handles the services and runlevels is so
nasty that I can't help to think that it is conceptually wrong!
The way I see it Red Hat might have had some good things that became
popular in other distros but now it REALLY IS NOT EVEN A GOOD
CHOICE. New Linux users should stick with ubuntu and when they get a
grip on how things really work switch to something more innovative,
powerful and versatile like arch, debian or even gentoo if you have
the time to wait for all the compilation.
- Cesar Romero ( name.lastname _at_ gmail _dot_ com )
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Innovative... I don't think so
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 201.211.45.202] on May 15, 2008 05:03 AMthat. As a linux user and administrator I can't see what so many
people see in this distribution.
To begin with the installation, it seems absurd to me a DVD or a {5,6}
cds installation system if everybody knows that a full system upgrade
is necesary after a fresh install. If you decide to install some not
so basic packages for example, it ends up installing and putting in
your default runlevel things like apache, postresql, cups, bind,
openldap, postfix... are you for real? Why on earth would a system
admin, a developer or a simple user want all this installed and
running using resources that u could probably put to a better
use?. There's nothing better than a simple and small installation like
the one other distros (arch, debian, ubuntu) provide, and from there
you can go ahead tune up your box the way you like it.
The package manager and packages are a headache formula. Yes! there
are better, simpler and more versatile things such as archlinux
package manager which lets you install really up-to-date packages and
even modify any package you want. I've created ebuilds (for gentoo),
arch packages and rpms and believe me! rpms shouldn't even exist any
more.
Package are usually old in Fedora in comparison with other distros
(arch, gentoo) and the way it handles the services and runlevels is so
nasty that I can't help to think that it is conceptually wrong!
The way I see it Red Hat might have had some good things that became
popular in other distros but now it REALLY IS NOT EVEN A GOOD
CHOICE. New Linux users should stick with ubuntu and when they get a
grip on how things really work switch to something more innovative,
powerful and versatile like arch, debian or even gentoo if you have
the time to wait for all the compilation.
- Cesar Romero ( name.lastname _at_ gmail _dot_ com )
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