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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Speakup mailing list > >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
