VVDQ : Replace Fedora after all?

[James Marcinek]

I don't think the RH workstation is that expense (it is an option). You can get
WhiteBox linux which is an open sourced version of RHEL 3.0.

http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/

For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com> wrote: 
> Having started looking at gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.legacy, I'm woefully
> confused.
> 
> On the one hand, there're some very recent posts by impressive people
> introducing themselves; on the other, there's a thread called "Good bye,
> Fedora Legacy!" started on Mon, 17 May 2004 17:43:04 +0200, by Michael
> Schwendt, which also has impressive participants -- and which seems to
> imply, to one of little wit looking for up, that security can't be counted
> on.
> 
> For me, that's an OS-breaker; as I said in another thread, well-nigh
> automated updating, especially of security issues, has always been a sine
> qua non for my use of linux. I don't know enough to do otherwise, and am
> not likely to live long enough to learn ....
> 
> It seems to me there's a broader point here; somebody please correct me as
> called for. My very limited understanding while mulling RH9's
> then-approaching EOL and replacements, and watching LUGs, was that one
> purpose of the whole Fedora project was to keep something remotely
> familiar (read manageable) to those of us such as old retired farts who
> couldn't read a line of code if it bit us, much less write one. Or am I
> barking up the wrong distro?
> 
> My pension won't begin to keep me in RHEL, and I don't have the savvy to
> keep up with 99 44/100% of the discussion on any of the fedora lists on
> gmane, even if I had the time -- especially with The Seasons about to
> open.
> 
> I have the System Settings > Service Configuration set up so that yum is
> checked; and under Status it says "Nightly yum update is enabled." Also,
> root's mail contains a logwatch and a cron report daily, most of both of
> which is way over my head. I *think* that the occasional-to-rare
> non-trivial responses I get to "yum update" as root during the day mean
> that it is working -- and that cron daemon reports like the one below mean
> that Adelphia The Eternally Accursed has dropped my connection yet again,
> rather than that there's anything wrong with my yum.conf or the mirror.
>                      =====
> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 04:02:06 -0400 From: Cron Daemon
> <root at localhost.localdomain> To: root at localhost.localdomain
> Subject: Cron <root at localhost> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
>                                                                          
> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
>                                                                          
> error: Ignoring up2date.rpmnew, because of .rpmnew ending
> /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:
>                                                                          
> Error getting file
> http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/heade
> r.info
> [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest): Error getting file
> http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/heade
> r.info
> [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):
>                             [ALL of message]
>                           =====
> SO : VVDQ of VVDQs : Is Fedora really still (if it ever was) the distro of
> choice for people like me who regret RH9, or is there another? If so,
> what?
> 
> I don't in the least mind staying one release behind -- upgrading RH9 to
> FC1 only after FC2 comes out, FC1 to FC2 after FC3 does, and so forth.
> But, much as I prefer that everything that I do often enough to remember
> be keyboard-driven, I'm too absent-minded to hope to handle anything
> advanced without a GUI, and probably other crutches besides.
> 
> -- 
> Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux 
> Remember I know precious little of what I'm talking about!
> 
> 
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James Marcinek

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