On Thursday 25 November 2004 00:07, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Once again I want to share something but don't want to start a rant. > > I finally got FC3 installed and have serious questions as to where > this Fedora Development is going. Are changes being made for good > reason or just to be different? Is there good reason to have two > panels on the screen (at top and bottom) instead of one, two That's Gnome 2.8. Compare with Ubuntu, a Debian-based distro. It's a single-CD install (but essentiall all of Debian downloadable after installation). It also does some things better than FC does. > essentially equivalent menus under different icons, logout hidden in a > different place, etc. > My reaction to having changes made in resolv.conf disappear after a > reboot was not a positive one. Luckily I had a hint of why this was > happening in a previous posting. dhcp has done that for ever. pppd has too, but that's configurable. > > I could go on with changes like udev and /media in place of /mnt but /media is LSB compliance. Debian does it too. Previously RH and Debian differed. > you get the idea. Are these changes caused by a overwhelming goal that > trumps the confusion they cause. > > In the back of my mind I would like Windows users to switch to Linux seeing > it can be presented in as friendly appearance as Windows is to them. Windows changes too. Get new Windows, likely you'll need new apps. Sometimes, get new Windows SP & need new apps. -- Cheers John
