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Gentoo and Fedora...
Gentoo is an amazing distrobution. I run Gentoo
on both my work laptop and my home server. I
too had my complaints about the Red Hat
distribution, but Fedora is a big improvement.
Here are the things I didn't like about Red Hat
that have been addressed in Fedora:

1) All packages are compiled for i386 (like
Windows ick!)
* All packages are compiled for i686 in Fedora
2) Free package updates in Red Hat <= 9 are slow
to download, and unavailable some times.
* Fedora has hundreds of sites where automatic
package updates can come from. This is secure
too due to the MD5 signatures at redhat.com
3) Red Hat <= 9 only have EXT2 or EXT3 file
systems.
* Fedora supports EXT2, EXT3, RieserFS, and JFS.

There are many other things that Fedora does
better than the actual Red Hat offering. The
things I've listed are the ones that bothered me
the most about Red Hat.

I'm not comparing Fedora and Gentoo though.
Gentoo is the most powerful and flexible distro
in the world (as you know). But Fedora is MUCH
better than the old Red Hat versions.

-Bryan
Posted by: prime21   Posted on: 12/18/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Where has the "hobbyist" fedora connection come from?  Richard Flude | 12/18/03
Yes, companies roll out Microsoft betas to everybody  DonnieBoy | 12/18/03
Not beta, not for hobbyist, not experimental  Richard Flude | 12/18/03
i changed distro's too  JWatson77 | 12/18/03
Why even bother?  Suicida| | 12/18/03
Gentoo and Fedora...  prime21 | 12/18/03
i changed distro's too  eohrnberger | 12/18/03
This is probably more Redhat's doing than ZDNET  balsover | 12/21/03
Glad I got up early to read this. Flame bait to follow  Squawkbox | 12/18/03
This is a large yawn to me..  Mike Cox | 12/18/03
RE: This is a large yawn to me..  Klackenfus | 12/18/03
Mike is the resadent satirist  nite_w0lf | 12/18/03
re: very good and improving all the time  ryusen | 12/18/03
You're new here, right?  Martin Marvinski | 12/18/03
And here's the bait  el1jones | 12/18/03
XP?  JWatson77 | 12/18/03
Good One Mike  nucrash | 12/18/03
Good post, Mike.  Eggs Ackley_z | 12/18/03
You're just a big laugh for me..  kray_z | 12/18/03
Back in Top Form  Mark Gist | 12/18/03
This is a large yawn to me..  SC-man | 12/18/03
What a great Christmas present.  DonnieBoy | 12/18/03
Based on UNIX?  Eggs Ackley_z | 12/18/03
Linux is a Unix based OS  ShadeTree | 12/18/03
And Windows is based on the Commodore OS  Update victim | 12/18/03
Just the facts.  ShadeTree | 12/18/03
Just the facts. (Correction)  SC-man | 12/18/03
Unix to Minix to Linux!  ShadeTree | 12/18/03
Unix != Minix != Linix  rgriffith64@... | 12/18/03
What was Minix's roots?  ShadeTree | 12/18/03
Unix != Minix  rgriffith64@... | 12/18/03
The problem is with "based"  Patrick Jones | 12/18/03
No problem with based!  ShadeTree | 12/18/03
You need to check your history.  Patrick Jones | 12/18/03
Won't be taking history lessons from you!  ShadeTree | 12/18/03
Shade get out of the sun  rgriffith64@... | 12/18/03
No Sun here!  ShadeTree | 12/18/03
Miscommunication  rgriffith64@... | 12/18/03
My point couldn't be plainer.  ShadeTree | 12/18/03
POSIX compliance for portability  rgriffith64@... | 12/18/03
Linus Trovaldi a noted Unix programmer creates Linux.!  nite_w0lf | 12/18/03
Don't Look Now Richman  BullBuster | 12/18/03
Nite_w0lf  BullBuster | 12/18/03
it depends on how you define "based"  ryusen | 12/18/03
And hence it is UNIX-LIKE..  Patrick Jones | 12/19/03
Also....  Patrick Jones | 12/19/03
WindowsXP is UNIX based  rgriffith64@... | 12/19/03
Duck. Duck. Goose.  ShadeTree | 12/19/03
i'm arguing your contentions  ryusen | 12/19/03
Linux comming of age  michael-t | 12/18/03

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