OT: Running Linux with filePro

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "D. Thomas Podnar" <filepro at microlite.com>
> Having read the prior email, I'd like to make a comment about Linux in
> general and Fedora in particular.
> 
> Fedora is NOT really an operating system. It is a collection of the
> latest and greatest, most bleeding edge Linux development technologies
> wrapped up for testing to look like an operating system.

> Those who like the Linux base under Fedora should strongly consider
> using Red Hat Enterprise Linux if they are looking for vendor support,
> and CentOS Linux if they want the same product, but with community
> support, i.e. free unless you feel like sending something to the
> maintainers.

And, if you're a SuSE-head, as I have been since 8.3 or so:

11.2 is your fence.

Do *NOT* upgrade to 11.3 without doing fairly extensive testing.  (That is:
sufficiently extensive testing that you probably ought to consider other 
major distros at the same time; good move, Novell.)

11.3 has caused me quite a bit of grief everywhere I've put it, largely
because they shifted from KDE3 (which I could train Windows users on in
about 15 minutes) to KDE4, which while it may be *working* is nearly 
completely useless -- even to me, and I've been doing this since
SCO Xenix 1.3.  On Tandy 6000s.  Would you like to see the memo?[1]

Cheers,
-- jra
[1]The late, great Frank Berleth, who was the Computer Center tech supervisor
at Countryside FL for many years, had to send out a memo to all the other 
Computer Centers and 18- store outposts telling them to put a root password
on their Xenix machines, because -- unlike most of the 17 year olds, who came in and played games on the Coco's -- I came in and played shell script games
on the Model 16s.  And I trashed one, at 18-8813, and it had to be sent 
up to him for a reinstall.  Oops.  There was an real actual paper memo,
I was told by the ex-Shacker who was then my boss for most of the next
20 years or so, but he no longer had a copy of it, so I haven't myself seen
it.  He says I was *named* in it though.  Got an early start, I guess.  :-)
-- 
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