Fedora Core Three

Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za> willem at top.health.gov.za
Thu Nov 11 01:20:03 EST 2004


You have obviously never used Fedora.


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 dking at pimpsoft.com wrote:

> Fedora is the unstable development version of the redhat version you
> have to pay for. As such its going to have allot of bugs in every
> release. It only exists to provide redhat with a cheap and effective
> way to test there for sale products; every user of any fedora release
> is simply a non paid beta tester.
>
> In my humble opinion I would stay away from it and never use fedora.
> Try debian if you can is its easy to update and maintain, debian
> testing if you want more stability then fedora but less bleeding
> edge.
>
> On 10 Nov 2004 at 17:13, ace wrote:
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>> Hello all,
>>
>> My friend has just downloaded and installed Fedora Core Three on his
>> system.  He isn't using Speakup; he has enough vision to read the
>> console.  However, I have a few problems.  I administer the box remotely
>> with him.  We are having problems such as paths not being set (he has to do
>> /usr/spin/adduser instead of just adduser), yum says something about how we
>> set it to use GPG keys when we didn't!.  Yum said to type rpm --import
>> public.GPG.key and when I did this, I got an error.
>>
>> So, what's the problem?  Is Core 3 royally screwed or is it us?  another
>> thing, a friend told me to type chkconfig vsftpd off to turn off VSFTPD,
>> that returned command not found.  I want to disable VSFTPD
>> permanently.  Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Robby
>>
>>
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