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> First, they continue to use Gnome by default. Yes, I *could* put in KDE, but > I found in the past they had too many things geared to the gnome desktop that > finding them under KDE was a pain and they had to load all the gnome > libraries anyways. (can you tell I don't like Gnome much? lol ). I hear you. Gnome gets in my way more than windows does, which I think was intentional :) > > Second, I don't like the way Fedora, or Suse for that matter, manage the > config files. This is a highly subjective point though. Gentoo is the > distro that 'clicked' for me, so I prefer distros that have a similar concept > in terms of the config files (i.e. don't add unnecessary control layers that > overwrite the config files on a whim). When I make a change to the config > files, I don't want to have to search for a distro specific way to safely add > an entry to my hosts file (or whatever config file I'm dealing with), that is > not going to get overwritten the next time I reboot or use the GUI config > tool. Thats how I feel with Debian. The GUI tools in RH and SuSe do weird things with the configs. Something that I can manage remotely over ssh is far nicer. That and I don't like reinstalling my OS everytime a new version comes out. > > But that's my own personal view. I'll likely try out Fedora 5 at some point, > just because I know I'll have to do some support on it... :) > Thats what I like about VMware. I can try different versions with little hassle. If I don't like it, it is easy to delete. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFERTPzwRXgH3rKGfMRAh45AJ9QA8aNhAKZUN5J1GqSt2pE0vwZUgCfbVwO nnFr5pBQr3srrmz2K/Kv4KE= =j5Qq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
