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Last Review by ps_sabu - posted: 11-02-2007 12:23 PM [ Post a Review ] 


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 Back when Red Hat Linux was a product delivered by Red Hat Inc. in its final form, the user community had little visibility into the decisions that affected the distribution. One of the early promises that came with the Fedora Project was that the important discussions would happen in a public forum. Things have not always happened that way, and a number of things still seem to happen by anonymous decree. It is true, however, that the public discussion has grown more vibrant as the wider Fedora community insists on having its say. One recurring discussion has to do with one of those decisions by decree: Fedora Core 5 lacks the "install everything" option which has characterized Red Hat releases for many years. The reasons behind this change make some sense: it is increasingly hard to support as the distribution grows, and as the distribution is split between "core" and "extras." Some packages conflict with others, making a true "everything" install impossible in any case. Installing everything is an invitation to unnecessary security problems. And the Anaconda installer has been reworked around a yum-based backend which is not so well equipped to do "everything" installs in any case. Administrators who do a lot of "everything" installs can use kickstart to obtain something close to the old behavior. So removing this option was not an unreasonable thing to do. But the community was not involved in the decision, and quite a few Fedora users are most unhappy with the change. Since there was no discussion - not even an announcement of the change - these unhappy users continue to fill the Fedora lists with complaints; it is beginning to look like one of those threads which never really goes away. But, "install everything" has gone away, and appears highly unlikely to return. A more relevant discussion, perhaps, is this one: what is to happen with evolution in Fedora Core? The state of the FC5 evolution package is evidently so poor that some Red Hat developers are suggesting that it should be shoved out to Fedora Extras, or dropped altogether: Evolution in extras is a bad idea. Evolution in core is a worse idea. What other as good as unmaintained large buggy package exposed to external attack and with known unfixed DoS bugs (and probably worse yet to be found) do we ship. Evolution belongs in the bitbucket.

Rating: 1
Product Details: "4.3" by mikes63737 - posted: 05-15-2006 - Rating: ******** 8.44

Last Review by ps_sabu - posted: 09-29-2007 12:47 PM [ Post a Review ] 


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 Run away from it as fast as u can

Rating: 1
Product Details: "4.0" by brashley46 - posted: 01-14-2007 - Rating: ******** 7.78

Last Review by ps_sabu - posted: 09-29-2007 12:40 PM [ Post a Review ] 


Views: 35958

 THeres only one useful distro in linux world That is Fedoara(Core)/ Red Hat.

Rating: 1
Product Details: "Professional Edition 2" by jeremy - posted: 09-13-2004 - Rating: *** 3.00



  



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