Where are all the updates gone?

[Res]

oh yeah its 9pm on a sunday night, so i make no apologies for the typos, i 
am pissed :) because i have alife and have had a great day

nite :P

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Res wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> That's nice.  But, even those with redhat.com addresses are not 
>> spokespersons for Red Hat and what they say can never be construed as 
>> gospel or policy.  I even recall several employees of Red Hat posting from 
>> their personal addresses since they recognized that posting from their Red 
>> Hat accounts could be taken as if they spoke for Red Hat.
>
> Correct, teh way it should be if tehy make comments like were directed to me, 
> and to others over the time I have witnessed
>
>
>> 3.  lilo was dropped from Fedora and is also being dropped from the 
>> upcoming RELv5.  As to the exact "why"?  I don't have any insight but 
>> suspect it was decided with the Fedora Project Board and Red Hat.
>
> so it has a maintainer but gonig to be dropped
>
>> 
>> 4.  There is only one person developing/supporting lilo, John Coffman.
> One should ask if John ceased to maintain it, your contradicting yourself, in 
> one breath you are saying JC is doingit, then in anotehr nobodies doing it
>
>
>> 5.  You like lilo and totally dislike grub.
>
> twice bitten, there shall enver be a third
>
>> 6.  You have been offered the chance to take up the post of maintainer for 
>> lilo in Fedora as a contributor to Fedora Extras.  It seems you're not 
>> really interested in becoming a contributor but prefer to remain part of 
>> the "those that can't, bitch" contingent.
>
> see 4
>
>> 
>> 7.  By your own admission the only time you post to the list is " when I 
>> get bored, or feel  a comment is warranted".
>
> Correct, I do not post for the hell of it, I actually have a life, most times 
> I read what goes on in here, not always, and are known to delete several days 
> worth of posts without reading, if my time is limited.
>
>> 
>> On a personal note, I do not use Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, 
>> and others in a production environment and it is unlikely I ever will.  I 
>> will play with them but that's about it.
>
> You see thats where we differ, I have a tleast currently for many many many 
> eyars used RH and then fedora as desktops, fedora was trialled in a server 
> environment but did not cut it, so we gave up and stuck with slackware which 
> remians stable, and supported for years.
>
> I shall be soon trialling ubuntu on desktop, and will try F7, for reasons 
> stated in otehr threads which it is not neccessary to revist in this thread.
>
>
>

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Cheers
Res