For what its worth, I've lurked in the background most of the time rading mails and generally thinking about unsubscribing recently, thats not because I dislike Centos or anything, far from it, I just think over the past months its got to a stage where some change needs to happen, just mainly down to the sheer volume of mails on the list now per day. Personally I think the centos forums could be redone, I switch between Centos and Ubuntu depending on what I'm doing at the time, and their forums are amazing for help (whereas I think Centos forums are awful and never use them at all and actually puts people off using it if anything), and I think the same would benefit Centos. A general decent faq, sticky threads for common problems, you don't have to read bitch threads and can subscribe to forums/threads if you so choose. I think there's only so much you can get out of a mailing list, and shouldn't be a deciding factor for using a dist or not as if anything its a victim of its own success in my view, but its worth trying to head things in the right direction also when problems do occurr. Ian
On 9/16/05, Todd Cary todd@aristesoftware.com wrote:
Let me start by saying that this forum has been extremely helpful for me. I am not sure where I would place myself as far as Linux experience/qualifications, since I believe there are many like me out there (or maybe I am hoping there are) that do not exactly fit into the routine beginner, intermediate or expert classes. Over the last 30 years I have been writing DBMS applications that manage 60-70% of the national class action lawsuits, and being a DBMS oriented programmer, does not out of necessity, expose me to what's under the hood. My concern is that the OS works.
So, every few years I reinstall an upgraded OS for my Windows server and my Linux servers in my home office. Then I just let them run. For Linux, many questions arise that underlines something I have learned over the years: Linux administrators need to understand computers in general and the OS in particular at a very detailed level. Not as true for Windows administrators. I tried by taking a course on Linux admin at a local JC, but only had reinforced how much there is to know and how I respect those that administer Linux systems.
The result is that I try to get the nswers from the many Linux books I have, but asking those of you that have contact daily with Linux more times than not gives me salient answers to my questions.
All I can say is a BIG THANK YOU for your patience and willingness to help. And maybe an apology is needed for asking about YUM, but I just wanted to know (briefly) why some of the Linux Admins do not like it (for me, it is just great). After a few replies the question was adequately answered...for me, it did not take the remainder of replies.
Todd
Robert wrote:
greetings,
can someone(s) in authority please come up with a plan(s) of action in regards to this list medium?
unfortunately this list has pretty much reached the point of no return
and
has become virtually useless.
- rh
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