Fedora Project Competetion?
BRUCE STANLEY
bruce.stanley at prodigy.net
Thu Aug 4 21:22:03 UTC 2005
--- Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/4/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've heard of CentOS but never looked into it. Now that I have, I'm
> > amazed to see that they recommend to users Firefox, and call Koquerer
> > and Opera broken! Apparently they have some JS on the homepage that
> > does not play well with those two browsers (and Safari, but no mention
> > of IE). I don't think that I'd use an operating system that is
> > marketed by those same people who can't even put together a standards
> > compliant website.
>
> Note that 'marketed by' in this context actually means 'given away freely',
> which also means that they aren't wasting your money to hire experts to make
> their web site pretty. I'd say it's a safe bet that the people who update
> the Novell and RedHat web sites are not the same as the people building the
> OS.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell at gmail.com
>
>
And since the current release of Centos (4.1) is built from the official
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 source RPMs, it should be the same version
as supported by Red Hat. If it is bad, so is the official RHEL 4 retail
box version.
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