Ross Walker wrote:
Les has been around a long time and certainly is knowledgeable about many forms of UNIX, Linux, Windows and OS X. He seems to enjoy fomenting discussions about what it is that Red Hat does in general that doesn't suit him but given CentOS philosophy to track upstream as closely as possible, there is no possibility that it will the distribution that will totally satisfy his wants.
I see Ubuntu doing much the same things as Fedora and that probably won't be as much of a change as he had hoped but c'est la vie.
Ubuntu has both fast turnover versions like fedora and LTS (long term support) versions with an enterprise flavor.
What he actually wants is a distribution that flips the middle finger to all GPL & Free License restrictions, comes with proprietary video drivers, codecs, Sun Java, Adobe stuff, with the latest versions of most everything but is stable. I hope that he finds it.
I don't believe I've ever mentioned codecs specifically, but I don't want any restrictions on what I or someone else can add, even if it involves drivers or linking to other components. And I do believe Red Hat has done enormous harm to java by shipping something that wasn't java and basically wouldn't work for years in both the fedora and RH distributions.
Hey Les, maybe it's OpenSolaris your looking for.
OpenSolaris still seems a little sort on drivers, but yes, I think OpenSolaris with a package manger and a large repository of packages maintained by a friendly community would be ideal. That looks like where Nexenta is heading, but slowly.
You should try it before it becomes OpenAIX.
I always thought Sun would be a better match for Apple to round out the client/server mix, but they are from somewhat different planets. Is OpenSolaris still closely controlled by Sun?