Advice for Red Hat/Fedora

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 21:01:02 UTC 2008


On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> Greetings folks;
>
>  As a staunch believer in Open Source in the form of linux, I've always
>  wondered just where M$ would attack linux, and it appears they have found an
>  ally and a willing vehicle in Novel, who I am told now owns gnome.
>
>  I'll let the data in this link speak for itself.
>
>  <http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/15/mono-contamination-in-ubuntu/>
>
>  And then offer the advice to TPTB in North Carolina, that some of the recipes
>  given in that link be used to expung any and all references to .NET and mono
>  from any distribution they can influence to do so including their own get.
>  If that means functions go away until they are re-written from scratch, so be
>  it.  If we are reminded as to why occasionally, I suspect you will find the
>  majority of us tolerant as long as the functions don't stay on the missing
>  list forever.
>
>  --
>  Cheers, Gene
>  "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>   soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>  -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>  <doogie_> linux takes shit and turns it into something useful.
>  <doogie_> windows takes something useful and turns it into shit



While I don't understand, but respect RedHat's alliance with Gnome, I
do wish I had the choice to have a gnome free (as in `rpm -qa | grep
gnome` returns no results). At this point, this is simply not an
available choice. I wish to have little to/nothing to do with Gnome as
they seem intent on embracing Mono (which I understand is their own
choice).

Also, I wish that installing from the DVD would give a cleared choice
between KDE and Gnome, and their respective packages -- removing Gnome
does not remove the preselected optional gnome apps.


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