[PLUG] Redhat changes, fedora

Michael C. Robinson michael at goose.robinson-west.com
Wed Nov 5 10:55:03 UTC 2003


 > But, at the risk of going off on a tangent that this thread doesn't need
> to follow, I do think it's dangerous for a society to depend on technology
> that few people understand.  That just creates a class of learned clergy
> that pushes everyone else around.  Yes, I know that's how things have
> always been.  But we've also always had war, oppression, poverty, hate,
> and greed... that doesn't mean we should actively support those things.
> 
> I don't know as much about all the technology I use as I'd like, but I do
> know enough to either call bullshit on those who would use it against me
> or do without.  And that's as close as most folks could probably get
> without living in a cave.
> 
> J.

I suppose that England and France didn't try 
to replace the church and that the church 
didn't preserve anything for posterity.  If 
the outcome of attacking the church is so 
good, why is it that nearly the fewest 
people for any state practice some sort 
of religion? Protestant denominations have 
split so many times it's hard to track 
them all and I bet noone could name all 
of them.  I'd say many Chrisitians 
understand a lot more about their faith 
than Jeme lets on.  And as far as clergy 
pushing people around, has Jeme watched 
the news lately?  Indeed many clergy are 
embarassed about sex scandals even 
though a minority among them committed 
crimes.  Who's really getting pushed 
around?

I don't think religion is the same 
as technology, diversity is better
for some things that it is for others.

And as far as intolerance and 
hatred, I'd guess that Jeme 
is not religious but still 
very capable of both.

As far as Fedora goes.  I think the 
more flexibility is becoming easier 
to integrate into friendlier Linux 
distribution where hopefully 
inventiveness will narrow the gap 
between Redhat and Debian systems.  
This use of markup language 
in config files is interesting.

I've gotten very good with rpm.  
It's not easy always to figure 
out what's needed to install 
something but rpm is very nice 
for finding where config files 
are or what package owns a file, 
etc.  With 1000's of files on a 
Redhat system, one frequently 
needs to look at a subset of 
them.  

One problem I've run into is how 
do I carefully update howtos to 
get language corrections without 
potentially losing information 
if things change?  It may be 
wise to keep the help for an 
older version of something 
around as that may be in use still 
or the old doc may clarify 
something in the new doc.  When
running multiple servers it would
be nice to link their help systems
somehow so that they know which 
docs they are supposed to have,
which ones are shared, etc.  It
might be interested to do something
like CVS and nfs for documentation
and wipe all but a central doc
server of documention.

     --  Michael C. Robinson




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