Re: Pointless rant: Red Hat Enterprise Server sucks!

2007-08-10 Thread Daniel P. Stasinski
Shame on you Kurt for thinking that Red Hat should pander to your SuSE driven expectations. Though I'm not much interested in the thread anymore, I still find the psychology of it all pretty interesting. In essence, it is similar to people fleeing California (because California sucks?) to

Internet Woes Redux

2007-08-10 Thread Robert N. Eaton
Hi all, After having installed several distros and actually building a new computer, I finally found out on the net why I was having so much trouble with Qwest DSL. The default DNS numbers were wrong. The solution: System Administrator Network DNS TAB: Primary DNS = 205.171.2.65

Re: Pointless rant: Red Hat Enterprise Server sucks!

2007-08-10 Thread Dan Lund
I assume your talking about SuSE. Mike Garfias wrote: I don't mind tools editing the standard conf files. I do mind some craptastic distro burying the setting in an obscure directory and then making it hard to script (or hand edit) a change. On Aug 10, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Dan Lund wrote:

Re: Pointless rant: Red Hat Enterprise Server sucks!

2007-08-10 Thread Dan Lund
This argument has gone on since the beginning of Red Hat being the Windows of Linux. Thankfully Red Hat has done a bit of shifting in their strategy and become less like that. It smacks of remnants of that argument, just completely backwards... back then it was people saying that it's better to

Re: Pointless rant: Red Hat Enterprise Server sucks!

2007-08-10 Thread Daniel P. Stasinski
On 8/10/07, der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The firstboot routine is a script, isn't it? Can it be run again later to go through the same questions for setting up the system? Yes, edit /etc/sysconfig/firstboot and set to YES/ Daniel -- |

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2007-08-10 Thread Joshua Zeidner
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Re: Pointless rant: Red Hat Enterprise Server sucks!

2007-08-10 Thread Mike Garfias
I don't mind tools editing the standard conf files. I do mind some craptastic distro burying the setting in an obscure directory and then making it hard to script (or hand edit) a change. On Aug 10, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Dan Lund wrote: This argument has gone on since the beginning of Red Hat

Re: Pointless rant: Red Hat Enterprise Server sucks!

2007-08-10 Thread der.hans
Am 09. Aug, 2007 schw�tzte Craig White so: hostname ethernet configurations, date/time, etc. are also part of the 'firstboot' routine which apparently wasn't included in your 'image' either - too bad...not Red Hat's fault. The firstboot routine is a script, isn't it? Can it be run again

Re: Pointless rant: Red Hat Enterprise Server sucks!

2007-08-10 Thread Mike Garfias
actually i'm mostly bitching about RH i found suse to be even worse the one time i tried it have since refused to touch it On Aug 10, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Dan Lund wrote: I assume your talking about SuSE. Mike Garfias wrote: I don't mind tools editing the standard conf files. I do mind some

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2007-08-10 Thread Devin Atencio
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PLUG members introductory profiles

2007-08-10 Thread Josef Lowder
. It would be very beneficial, in many respects, if the PLUG website could include a gallery of introductory bios and photos of as many PLUG members as may be willing to participate. A preliminary list of reasons and benefits for doing this, along with a few very preliminary examples of how this

Re: Pointless rant: Red Hat Enterprise Server sucks!

2007-08-10 Thread Dan Lund
Okay, because you confused me... Red Hat doesn't bury the settings, so that's probably what confused me. /etc and /etc/sysconfig Mike Garfias wrote: actually i'm mostly bitching about RH i found suse to be even worse the one time i tried it have since refused to touch it On Aug 10,

Re: Pointless rant: Red Hat Enterprise Server sucks!

2007-08-10 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 06:51:40PM -0700, Mike Garfias wrote: RH puts many things in /etc/sysconfig that belong in either the top level /etc dir or their own dir under /etc (ex: /etc/apache/) granted some are in the right place, but at best its an inconsistent mess also another bitch: