[Leaplist] FC6 conversion from Ubuntu?

[Kyle Gonzales]

On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 19:15 -0500, Marc wrote:
> 
> I am the opposite at this point.  I have been a 'die hard' RH user
> until recently when I decided that I was tired of 'carrying water' for
> a company that is consistently flaky with regards to some of its
> software (RHCS, GFS), most especially with regards to support of
> mission critical apps they sell, flaky people who work for the
> company, and now the recent thing with FC6 and the fact that RH now
> wants you to 'register' with them and/or be tracked by them.  I just
> left all the RH lists I was on and I am a happy Ubuntu user now.
> Anything that I can't do I will post, get help with, invent a way to
> do it, find a workaround, etc.   

I am guessing that you are taking a singular personal experience, and
extrapolating it as a generalized rant about Red Hat.  If you would
like, the next time I am in the area, I would love to sit down and talk
to you about it.  That is part of what I do.

With me being probably one of a handful of people who have used both RH
GFS and Cluster Suite on this list, I would have to say that your
comments regarding those software components are absolutely wrong.  Red
Hat has great support for both these products, and many of the engineers
who work on them have been in the software business since before Linux
existed.  If you have had issues with these products, I would be more
than happy to help you.

In most cases, poor implementation and a lack of understanding of how
the product works has lead to people's frustration with these
technologies.  Having full knowledge of any technology you put into
production is important.  If you do not have that knowledge, then get
trained on it.  Red Hat has hands-on training available for both
products.  I myself have helped a number of customers implement both
technologies successfully, and have not seen these "flaky" support
issues.

In regards to "the recent thing with FC6", I downloaded FC6 from
3rd-party sites, and never had to register anything at that time, nor
during installation.  Are you sure you are not confusing the RHEL5Beta
with FC6?  The beta IS using a stub registration code, to unlock
different repositories on the disk.  That has nothing to do with Fedora
Core.

> Personally I am happier with a somewhat less bleeding edge, but more
> stable distro.  The only advice I can say is to find a way around the
> 'registration' process with FC6.  That is, unless they have backed off
> of that in the past 2 weeks or so.  I am still open to SuSE if the
> desktop product is worth buying but it's hard to beat free (as in beer
> ha ha).  

There is no registration involved, and while you perceive Fedora Core to
be less "stable" than Ubuntu, I would say there are a large number of
active FC users would who have different opinions than yours.

-- 
Kyle Gonzales <kyle.gonzales at gmail.com>
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