On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 00:10 -0500, Robert Myers wrote: >> I used to be a samba stud. Once I saw that ubuntu would do it for me, >> I thought, "Why should I have to?" I have a pretty complicated >> network. One less application/server to configure is nice. >> >> Guys who used to mess with their cars, can't do it any more because of >> the electronics, and take it out on obscure command line options in >> Linux. They have "detail-oriented/OCD" confused with "smart." Linux >> fairly crawls with these types. Ubuntu understands that most of the >> world is not like that and doesn't want to be like that. > > when you automatically configure something like samba, a lot of > assumptions are made which may work for a majority of users but becomes > settings that MUST be changed for the minority of users in order for it > to work. Those are philosophical choices that each distribution is > obviously free to make for their users. Generally Fedora packagers will > distribute the settings as intended by upstream developers which will > match the documentation provided by the upstream developers. I think that the additional option that Ubuntu sets by default is "usershare allow guests". > I find that Ubuntu has an astounding number of documentation pages on > various wikis that are often out of date, do not track the upstream > packagers and sometimes add to the confusion of the users and while it > may work for some, it also fails and sometimes fails miserably for > others. Ubuntu's official documentation's so bad (except for that for its server edition) that they ought to outsource it to Fedora (or Arch or Gentoo...). -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
