A choice?

[Maynard Kuona]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 21:03, Ben Steeves wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:42, Mark A. Hoover wrote:
> 
> > Allowing somebody a choice isn't going to kill anyone here.  Isn't that 
> > one of the reasons why we all decided to run Linux in the first place?
> 
> I would argue that both your examples (Lilo and an fdisk button) fall
> into the category of being needlessly redundant.  An expert -- the only
> kind of person who would appreciate the choice -- can choose for
> themselves if they want to use lilo (admittedly, only after the install)
> or fdisk (what difference does a button that switches to a console or a
> key-press sequence make, really?)
> 
> One of the challenges of putting together a good distribution is
> choosing reasonable defaults while allowing experts to customize to
> their heart's content.  Fedora is exceptionally good at that, IMHO.
> 
> -- 
Amen I say to that. Fedora IS a choice. Like I choose to run my own
kernel because the NVidia drivers work well with it. It is hard to make
Fedora cater for things not in their power. If grub is developed more
openly and quickly than LILO then they choose that. Redhat also has a
(good) tendency to include things they have more control over, if they
do have this control.