[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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