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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