[NTLUG:Discuss] Giving Up On FEDORA

[Gilbert Morrow]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Ted Gould <ted at gould.cx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 10:39 -0600, Greg Edwards wrote:
> > Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > > On 01/06/2010 08:17 AM, Greg Edwards wrote:
> > >> I gave up on RH distributions a long time ago.  I truly appreciate the
> > >> contribution that RH made to the Open Source community in the
> beginning.
> > >
> > > "In the beginning???"  Who do you think today's #1 contributor to X.org
> > > is?  How about the #1 commercial contributor Linux kernel?  And glibc
> > > and the associated toolchain (gcc and friends)?  It's Red Hat.  Red Hat
> > > does more for Linux and Linux distros than any organization on the
> > > planet.  I am constantly blown away at how quick folks are to trash
> talk
> > > Red Hat since they're at the top of the heap.  It just amazes me how
> > > folks who are obviously ignorant of the facts spew crap like this.
> >
> > Calm down.  I don't think that I trashed RH anywhere in my comments.  I
> > have no problems with RH or their goals as an organization.  In their
> > early days RH had allot to do with putting Linux on the map, so to
> > speak, for non techies.
>
> I think that his issue is with your use of "in the beginning."  I think
> that RH still has a lot to do with putting Linux on the map per se.
> While it's impossible to compare "contributions to Open Source" (I think
> at one time Oracle had a metric that put them on top) -- RH continues to
> be a major contributor.
>
> Now, the issue I have is that it seems RH is getting a chip on their
> shoulder over this.  I wish I could go inside and say "You guys do great
> things, be confident in that."  I think that inside RH there is a belief
> that other people are getting false credit for their work.  Which isn't
> untrue, but it's the same credit they got before they were big enough to
> be a major contributor to all the projects they contribute to today.
>
>                --Ted
>
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> Red Hat is a great contributer to Linux , but so is Debian , Slackware ,
the RH that I remember back in the early 90s was not to user friendly then ,
and was problematic as well .
I purchased RH 8.0 , right after , a month or so , they sent me a e-mail
saying they were no longer going to support RH 8.0 , so I looked elsewhere
and found the Lizard .
So RH gave me a bad taste several years ago , so I don't blame you for not
using RH .
I have tried it several other times and Gnome always was slow and clunky ,
just tried it with KDE4 and was surprised , but still it is RH .
My $.02 .


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