-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 22, 2004 09:29, Andrew Graupe wrote: > That sounds like a step *way* down for Red Hat.
in polish, yes. they've withdrawn their Q&A team, and cut back on "enterprise" features (like multiple fs choices) .... the community around Fedora is still largely Red Hat employees, but the goal is a rough stone which they will then polish up into a gem (in theory) for their EL, AL and WS offerings. sad. on the other hand, things like YUM and a truly minimal install are a huge step forward. some things remain the same: Disk Druid has always sucked and apparently isn't getting any better. > status at the time. It is too bad for the linux community that Fedora > seems so much more unrefined. there are other options out there =) > As for yum, I've never tried it. If you want great package management, > I recommend gentoo/emerge. It would be great if emerge was "ported" to > work with binary distros like RedHat, IMO. well, the bonus of emerge is that it enables building everything from source with customizations via USE variables. otherwise, it's not any more compelling than apt-get, urpmi or yast. in fact, i have two major bones of contention with it: o no GPG signing (kevin just KNEW that was coming, didn't you Kevin? ;) o no safeties against concurrent usage. two sessions can be "happily" emerging their way simultaneously with no safeguards in the way. on that note, YUM goes too far in protecting against concurrency IMHO. you can't even do a package SEARCH (which is read only) at the same time as anything else (search, install, etc)... this is patently bogus. a database should be readable at all times. such big locks went out with the 80s. hell, even MySQL managed to get away from them ;-) - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 while (!horse()); cart(); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAsD971rcusafx20MRApTsAJ0QlVl3KSCrJxAVRaBc4qDIOuTuLQCgl5z2 Cgl/yVXHfLBTU7QNIk/xWnw= =atRE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
