On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:31 -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
William Warren wrote:
That's bad to hear. I use CentOS here. I just filter out the noise. All mailing lists have issues from time to time. I have yet to not have a question answered in a nice manner personally.
Same here. The system is a joy to use, support on the list is generally prompt. It's unfortunate that you chose a "bad hair day" to judge the quality of the list readership. If you filter out the vanishingly small number of blowhards, the S/N is actually rather high.
And if you use RHEL at work, CentOS will be a walk in the park.
That's a good point. Part of the reason why I have a good impression of the list is frankly because I don't read it verbatim. Don't have to. RHEL is so familiar that most of the time I just use the OS and scan the list for anything interesting. I think it would be a shame to throw the baby out with one day's dirty bathwater.
Part of a good distro is a good community, but the distro, thanks to Red Hat and the hard work of Johnny, etc. stands on its own two feet as well.
Preston