Re: A newbie - What are differences between Red Hat Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:34:11 -0600, notbob wrote:

On 2006-11-17, Amadeus W.M. <amadeus84@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

from the user, but you can still do everything at the prompt. If you can
find the shell, that is ;)

Or, if you can find all the files necessary to change one minor
function. The kicker for me was when RH changed the /etc/issue file
on RH 5.2 or 6 or whatever. RH changed a simple message file into 3
interactive files that would overwrite /etc/issue to RH's default
message everytime one rebooted. I was pretty green back then and it
took me awhile to figure out what the Hell was going on. Why? To
what point? Whatever the reason, RH borked a simple message file into
an insidious "we, not you" control issue. That's when I bailed. If
RH wants to own your computer like M$, let 'em own someone else's.
Slack lets ...nay, demands!... I control my own computer. Suits me
right down to the ground. ;)

nb

Oh, well, I think FC has found good middle ground between pre-configuring
the system and letting the user do it. Honestly, I don't mind the least
bit that NFS sees all partitions exported by my other machines, right out
of the box, or that the printer, network, sound card, etc. are up and ready
to go upon install. If I want to change something I can, and I do. The
problem with automatic configuration is that if something goes wrong, then
you do have to dig under the gui, or piles of scripts, as you said. By the
way:

1) root:~> ls /etc/iss*
/etc/issue /etc/issue.net

2) root:~> cat /etc/issue
Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)
Kernel \r on an \m



One thing that I find most annoying is that FC/RH seem to go to great
extents to hide the shell under layers of menus upon menus, on top of more
menus, all different from one release to another. Seems their notion of
user friendly amounts to hiding the shell. If MS does it, why won't FC?
Or is it the gnome people? That, and the top panel in gnome drives me
crazy with each install. But's just me being picky.
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