On Mar 31, 2009, at 9:51 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 09:27 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > >>> Ubuntu is fine - if that gives Les what he's looking for, then I >>> say, >>> great. What's the point of this ongoing discussion anyway? >>> >> >> It looked like Les was exploring the idea of trying something else >> and I >> have been through that and I thought I'd share some of the issues you >> get when you do that if you do not mind. > ---- > 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. 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. Hey Les, maybe it's OpenSolaris your looking for. You should try it before it becomes OpenAIX. -Ross