Fedora Core Three

[Sean McMahon]

Unfortunately rpm is universal.  We even use it on solaris here.  I say
unfortunately because to mnany of our packagers can't figure out their circular
dependencies so something like apt would be well, more apt for them.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "nick G" <Nick6489 at andrelouis.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora Core Three


> Hell Yeah!   Those VSFTPD packages on the FTP site which are now Superfluous
> because VSFTPD 2.0.1 is in FC3 were written by a Fedora user.  When I
> installed Fedora 1 back in February, I went threw Hell to get Icecast up and
> running.  With a lot of help from two people, one of them is our very own
> Bill Acker, I got Icecast working.  Those Icecast RPM's on the FTP site were
> written by Bill himself.  Now, Don't forget, it was my second day of working
> threw Linux, so I needed a lot of help, but the truth is that it's
> available, maybe more for Fedora because of it's universality...Hey is that
> a word?  What I mean is it supports a universal standard for packages...RPM
> anyone?
> Thanks,
> Nick
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Bruzos" <david at bruzos.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:56 AM
> Subject: Re: Fedora Core Three
>
>
> I agree.  Who ever posted that message has to be talking from a very
> ignorant position.  Fedora is a great distro and it certainly does not have
> any more problems than any of the other distributions.  There is a large an
> very active community around Fedora and it is very well supported by all of
> the software developers out there.  Also, there are RPM Fedora packages for
> almost anything you want...  So, you get a great distro plus the latest in
> available technology when you use FC.
> I am not saying that other distributions are not great or that Fedora is the
> best.  I am just saying that FC has earned the respect of millions of Linux
> users, because it is a quality product.
>
> David B.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <willem at top.health.gov.za>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 1:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Fedora Core Three
>
>
> > 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:
> >>
> >>> 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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