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 at 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 > > > >-- > >Robert - Abba Communications > >Computers & Internet Sales/Service > >www.abbacomm.net <http://www.abbacomm.net> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >CentOS mailing list > >CentOS at centos.org > >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > > > > -- > Ariste Software > 200 D Street Ext > Petaluma, CA 94952 > (707) 773-4523 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050916/36cffb83/attachment-0004.html>