From: dking@pimpsoft.com
To: "Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>"
<willem@top.health.gov.za>,
"Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Fedora Core Three
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:46:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4193DDA1.32457.15564970@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0411110817330.27387@rh.health.gov.za>
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@top.health.gov. wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>
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> >
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ace
` Janina Sajka
` ace
` Janina Sajka
` ace
` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209
` dking
` Janina Sajka
` Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>
` David Bruzos
` nick G
` Sean McMahon
` dking [this message]
` Janina Sajka
` Sean McMahon
` Janina Sajka
` Janina Sajka
` Sean McMahon
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