Fedora Core Three

[Sean McMahon]

Of course some with an interest in selling a product is going to give a line
that will make you be unsure about a free version.  But that's economics, not
software.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dking at pimpsoft.com>
To: <willem at top.health.gov.za>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora Core Three


> Yes I have. I was told what I responded with by someone who at the
> time worked for redhat. I'm going to trust that he knew what he was
> talking about.
>
> Thank you for your concern anyway.
>
>  - D
>
>
> On 11 Nov 2004 at 8:20, Willem van der Waltwillem at top.health.gov. wrote:
>
> > 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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