I'm not wanting a distro war, either. I don't know what you hearrd, and it sounds wrong to me. I run 8.0, and I keep an rsync of the latest and greatest in the devel version of what will become 8.1. I don't know what you're talking about. About the only thing I can think of is that you have to be careful, depending on what Red Hat installation "class" you select durint the install, to be sure you get things like lynx installed. Of course, you can always go back and rpm them on. They're certainly part of the distribution media. So, I think this is a lot of baloney. Also, I'm not trying to tell Michael that Red Hat is better than Debian. As it happens, I run both. I am saying don't sweat the small stuff. I happen to believe it's more important to get a working installation than to demonstrate loyalty to a particular distro. Mario Lang writes: > From: Mario Lang <mlang@teleweb.at> > > Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> writes: > > > So, if Red Hat worked and Debian doesn't, why not go back to Red Hat? > > I am not trying to raise a distribution war here now (really, I do not want to > do this, so direct flames directly to me in private if you can't resist), > but one strong reason I could think of for avoiding RedHat if you're a blind > user is that RedHat recently dropped alot of the text-mode programs which > used to be available in earlier versions. I've been told that > this is because they're emphasizing on the Desktop, and try to keep the > set of packages at a possible minimum. This means that text-mode apps > get dropped in favour for their more nicely looking GUI versions. > > I may be wrong with this, since it is only second hand information, and > I'm really just a "sometimes on a server" RedHat user, but > I thought those were some pretty bad developments regarding blind users. > > -- > CYa, > Mario > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list