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Prettified Version blogged by Doug StewartPrettified Version blogged by Doug StewartPosted May 5, 2004 1:47 UTC (Wed) by yohan555 (guest, #4253)In reply to: Prettified Version blogged by Doug Stewart by adastra Parent article: Revealed: how Fedora and the community interact I am in the same boat, I have used it for years, but I have followed the current development cycle in fedora core 2 very closely and I don't like what I am seeing. The forced push of inclusion of selinux and the increased modifications of the kernel make it increasingly difficult to solve problems youself and to tweak and modify the system. Heck, this was the reason I went away from Windows in the first place. In any case, I have definitely started to "shop" around for an alternative - I will give SuSe another go in the next few weeks.
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'following' FC2 Posted May 5, 2004 4:15 UTC (Wed) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link] You're not following very closely if you think they are increasing the number of modifications of the kernel. Both SuSE and RH will be dropping hundreds of patches in their next releases because of the switch to 2.6 from 2.4. With FC2 they'll be much closer to Linus's tree than they have been in years.
Prettified Version blogged by Doug Stewart Posted May 5, 2004 8:14 UTC (Wed) by seyman (subscriber, #1172) [Link] > The forced push of inclusion of selinuxSELinux will ship with Fedora Core 2 but be desactivated by default.
Red Hat / Fedora with a standard kernel Posted May 5, 2004 9:33 UTC (Wed) by james (subscriber, #1325) [Link] I have only once found a problem using a standard version of the Linux kernel on Red Hat or Fedora that was attributable to the distribution relying on the patches in the Red Hat kernel. I have been regularly compiling my own kernels from pristine source since Red Hat 5.0. (Maybe I should rephrase that. No, my computer is not that slow!) That problem was Red Hat using ext3 before it got into Linus' tree. You had to drop back to ext2. IIRC, the distributions that adopted ReiserFS early spent considerably longer with patches that had to be applied if you wanted to read your disks. I would make a comment about the readiness of the filesystems when they were first used in a distribution, but that way lie flamewars to melt the frozen wastes where real penguins rule supreme. (I suppose that's not absolutely fair: ReiserFS was waiting for 2.4.1 before it got into Linus' tree, and 2.2 had gone into stable mode. If everyone had realised how long it would take 2.4 to really stabilise, it might have got in somewhere earlier).
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