Three Observations

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ian Malone wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> Mauriat M wrote:
>>>
>>>> As for Skype and for anything closed source, Fedora realistically
>>>> cannot support such applications.
>>>
>>> What do you mean by 'support'?  Applications only need a working and 
>>> documented interface provided by the operating system.  Is Fedora a 
>>> poor choice to provide that?
>>>
>>
>> No.  But whose fault is it when something goes wrong?
>
> If the application works on other systems, then it's pretty likely 
> that the OS version is not providing the standard interface as 
> documented.
>
    What EVERYONE on this list has forgot is that Fedora Core ANYTHING 
is most correctly called Linux. The reason Fedora anything works is 
because there are paid people from Red Hat Inc. that help out.

    Today I took a Tarball called gMFSK which was last checked out on 
Red Hat 9, and with the help of many on this list I ./configure -- xxx  
--xxxx and when that went clean I used "make" and that errored out 
because I was missing a stupid thing I yummed from Fedora. Then as root 
I make install and that worked. Right now it is using the sound card to 
decode PSK-31 from my radio on 14.070 MHz. This was the fastest I ever 
got this working on a new Linux version.

    You can be sure when Hemmi wrote this software Fedora was not 
invented. And be sure that F7 is Linux first and Fedora for applications 
and such second. I need help with both Linux and Fedora Core 6 
applications and I sure get them here :-)

73 Karl Larsen aka K5DI