i reccomend gentoo!!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Schieuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 4:35 PM Subject: [sclug-general] taking another look at Red Hat... > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > So I've been on the Red Hat bandwagon since forever.... I've installed about > every distro out there and found that Red Hat just seems to fit pretty well. > I was reading through the following link... > > http://rhl.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/ > > These release notes for the next beta layout a few items here and there. What > I was most surprised to see was some of the packages not being distributed in > this release and some that may be dropped in later releases. > > It looks like pine is on the cut list, because it's not open-source? > > http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html > > I don't know about a lot of you, but pico is a command I use multiple times a > day..... Another note worthy cut is lilo. GRUB is going to be the > recommended boot loader. It just seems to me Red Hat is taking some more of > the user choices and cutting them out. I don't know if anyone has ever had > to boot a system into single user mode to reset the root password, but I know > from experience doing it with GRUB sucks. > Needless to say I think it's time for me to pack up my toys and look for a > different distro. > > Mike > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/HFyWmUFtrUUciv4RAn5eAJ4wJl5GmHpqCTbe4pXVxG7xf+OrZACgieDU > lHGEni8igNA3HmsK6iMX1eQ= > =4s/Y > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >
