On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 09:20 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > Paul Gear wrote: > > > >> michael.sherman@og.ge.com wrote: > >>> Is anyone here using Progeny? > >>> ... > >> I tried it as an easy way of getting Sarge installed. It looks pretty > >> good, but it didn't detect my SATA drives for some reason, and the GUI > >> hung when it found some config files that were modified and VC4 started > >> asking about them. It looks like a good possibility for us Red Hat > >> refugees, though. > > Indeed. > > Just for laughs, how does FC go on that box? > > Nothing to laugh about - it just works. Perfectly, straight out of the > box. No mucking about, just create the partitions i want (RAID 1 on > everything: /, /boot, and swap) and install. So does SuSE Personal 9.1. Too bad. MD Raid is tough for a bootable setup with automated tools. I have a workaround to get it to work proper. If you want I can help you through that. > (Rant begins here) > > I'm finding this mailing list a little hard to cope with. Some people > on it think they know everything about Linux because they've been using > Debian for 3 years. I've been using Linux for 10 years, but because i > didn't use Debian from the beginning, i get treated like a newbie who > doesn't understand what RAID is and obviously needs to "go back to > Windows" since i don't think Debian's features are up to scratch and i > think GUI installers are easier to use. For crying out loud, the last > version of Windows that was the main OS on my PC was *Win95*, 9 years ago! Well, I haven't been that lucky. I had to use Windows as my primary until 1999. Since then, it has been everything Linuc, FreeBSD, RedHat and Debian > When are you people (not you, John) going to realise that it's not just > Windoze lusers that expect things to just work? That's the main reason > i used Red Hat for so many years (from Red Hat Linux 4.2 through Fedora > Core 1). I jumped ship from RedHat long before that. RH7.3 is the Last version I installed from ANYONE. Customers included. > The reason i'm trying to change over to Debian is because of Red Hat's > new(-ish) model of only providing experimental distributions for free > and charging more than Sun & Microsoft for their stable distributions. > The release churn is too great on Fedora. (Of course, apt-get is a > great feature, but Fedora is coming close now, with apt and yum.) I am supporting the existing 7.3- with yum. Using www.fedoralegacy.org awesome. But not quite Debian... :) > Sorry for the venting, but i imagine i'm not alone - there are plenty of > Red Hat refugees around, and i was almost sold on Debian before i even > installed it. You can make some significant new converts by just taking > our concerns seriously. We aren't called Snobbians fer nothing. Another common term I ave seen: Dweebians. Don't let us get you down. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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