[Gllug] Fedora 11 gets it wrong

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:45 AM, James Laver<james.laver at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 Jun 2009, at 08:15, Tethys wrote:
>
>> 1. It's not a desktop OS, or at least, it shouldn't be. That's not
>>   how where it was initially aimed. In reality, it increasingly is.
>
> That's what it's built as. Unless you think they ship GNOME because
> people like pretty gui admin tools?
>


Solaris and OpenSolaris have GUΙs too (GNOME based if you want) ...
Just saying :-)


>> 2. I'm not. But I'd like to be able to, purely because what's in
>>   Fedora today will be in RHEL/CentOS tomorrow, and I'd like my
>>   server OS to be sane. If they don't get it right in Fedora now,
>>   then my servers of the future will be screwed too.
>
> Fedora is a testbed for this sort of stuff. Desktop users of fedora
> find bugs in packages and those packages are then not shipped into
> RHEL. Why are you using your server to find bugs in fedora?
>


I agree with this. Other distros (or OSes) offer serious server
support commitments.
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