Re: Linux Format mag. article F14 vs ubuntu

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On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 00:10 -0500, Robert Myers wrote:


>> I used to be a samba stud.  Once I saw that ubuntu would do it for me,
>> I thought, "Why should I have to?"  I have a pretty complicated
>> network.  One less application/server to configure is nice.
>>
>> Guys who used to mess with their cars, can't do it any more because of
>> the electronics, and take it out on obscure command line options in
>> Linux. They have "detail-oriented/OCD" confused with "smart."  Linux
>> fairly crawls with these types.  Ubuntu understands that most of the
>> world is not like that and doesn't want to be like that.
>
> when you automatically configure something like samba, a lot of
> assumptions are made which may work for a majority of users but becomes
> settings that MUST be changed for the minority of users in order for it
> to work. Those are philosophical choices that each distribution is
> obviously free to make for their users. Generally Fedora packagers will
> distribute the settings as intended by upstream developers which will
> match the documentation provided by the upstream developers.

I think that the additional option that Ubuntu sets by default is
"usershare allow guests".


> I find that Ubuntu has an astounding number of documentation pages on
> various wikis that are often out of date, do not track the upstream
> packagers and sometimes add to the confusion of the users and while it
> may work for some, it also fails and sometimes fails miserably for
> others.

Ubuntu's official documentation's so bad (except for that for its
server edition) that they ought to outsource it to Fedora (or Arch or
Gentoo...).
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