On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:23 -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote:
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 15:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > B
> >> Well, I'm a long time user and I don't see what the big deal is.
There
> >> are several people on this list which seem to announce that
"<insert
> >> change here> is the one that's going to drive long time users
away"
> >> and/or "time to look for a new distribution" semi-regularly...
yet they
> >> (long time users) are still here.
> >
> > Maybe they just haven't found anything better (yet)?
>
> Or, speaking for myself, not actually running fedora anymore, just
> watching to see how much damage is going to make its way into the next
> RHEL and clones.
So, out of curiosity...Do you run X on your RHEL machines? Are you
going to switch from RHEL when this change makes it into RHEL6 or
whatever?
To be fair, one of the points of participating in the fedora community
and discussion is to influence where rhel is going. We TELL people this
upfront.
So his case isn't without merit. I may not agree with Les often but it's
not like he's coming completely out of left field.
-sv