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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> 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
