too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Mon Mar 19 16:54:02 UTC 2007


Ralf Corsepius writes:
 > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:26 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Josh Boyer writes:
 > >  > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:28 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > >  > > Ralf Corsepius writes:
 > >  > > 
 > >  > >  > >From my experience (I've used Fedora with both ISDN and with
 > >  > >  > DSL Lite), Fedora with ISDN or modem is plain unusable, with
 > >  > >  > "DSL Lite", the situation is "bearable", but isn't fun (an
 > >  > >  > openoffice update takes a working-day).
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > So don't do that, then.  Fedora doesn't require anyone to yum
 > >  > > update openoffice.
 > >  > 
 > >  > That isn't a particularly helpful comment. 
 > > 
 > > Look at it this way: if you really need openoffice updated, then
 > > update it.
 >
 > Well, then you might be able to answer why Core has replaced ca. half of
 > the core distro since FC6's initial roll-out if there weren't sufficient
 > reasons to do so?

Sigh.  One of the advantages of Fedora is that we do frequent updates
so that you can be sure that bugs are fixed in a timely manner.  That
doesn't mean that Fedora is totally useless unless you have every
single update the instant it is released.

 > >   But saying that Fedora *requires* broadband because only
 > > then can you have continuous updates is nonsense.
 > Your opinion.

It is.

Andrew.




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