From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gscamnlh01.wr.usgs.gov ([130.118.4.115]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CTm3H-0006ll-00 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:58:15 -0500 Received: from PUNK ([130.118.172.119]) by gscamnlh01.wr.usgs.gov (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.12HF677) with SMTP id 2004111510573003:35654 ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:57:30 -0800 Message-ID: <006801c4cb44$f41862b0$77ac7682@azwaterDOM.wr.usgs.gov> From: "Sean McMahon" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <419255B3.17210.F5B51DB@localhost><006e01c4c806$f2d7e290$0564a8c0@bonny> <003e01c4c845$5742f100$cc00a8c0@nickysp4> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:57:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on gscamnlh01/SERVER/USGS/DOI(Release 5.0.12HF677 | March 16, 2004) at 11/15/2004 10:57:30 AM, Serialize by Router on gscamnlh01/SERVER/USGS/DOI(Release 5.0.12HF677 | March 16, 2004) at 11/15/2004 10:58:10 AM, Serialize complete at 11/15/2004 10:58:10 AM Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: Re: Fedora Core Three X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sean McMahon , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:58:38 -0000 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" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 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" > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > 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: > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > 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@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@braille.uwo.ca > >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup