[PLUG] Fedora change...

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Wed Nov 12 22:49:02 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:24, Sasha Romanosky wrote:

> What is it exactly about Mandrake that makes you say its unstable, bulky
> and not geared towards a server setup

They use devfs, which is not ready for general use.

They use the grsecurity patches, which tend to have problems. 
(Especially with devfs.)

Trying to work with their programmers is an experiment in abuse and
torture.  (Having done it more than once.)

Some good ideas.  Implementation is lacking though.

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above fault, and made them unaccountable. We gave them special privilege
-- and this is the result." 
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