[ale] How do people deal with RHEL?

[James Sumners]

Man, you are hilarious. There is _one_ instance in my replies where I
have been even a little bit snarky, and that is when I pointed out
that I _did_ include the information that I was being chastised for
not including.

It is other folks who have taken this thread in a direction unintended
and then got offended by replies they didn't want. Replies that did
not contain any malice, just opinion and statements of situation. In
fact, in a couple of my replies I _explicitly identified_ that this
thread wasn't a quest for help, but nothing more than "bitching" about
a distro that frustrates me. I don't know how that anyone can take
personal offense to that.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> So you want it done your way and don't understand why RedHat could possible
> put out a distro without package "foo" in it since _you_ use it but didn't
> until 5 years after the version you run was released. And you don't want the
> hassle of actually having to do something to get it installed.
>
> I bet you bitch about "guberment taking over" too.
>
> As a distribution is a collection of packages that are supposed to work
> together, a package not in that collection simply means you have to deal
> with it. ntop is not a commonly used tool according the the people who made
> the decision at RedHat to leave it out. Is it useful? To you, yes. So now
> you know that most other RHEL admins don't use it. If they did, it would be
> part of RHEL5 (it isn't)  or RHEL6 (it still isn't in it). But some people
> do use it and made it work for you if you use the EPEL repository. It's
> still NOT available for RHEL4 as most every admin is running away from it.
> The non-security changes in nearly everything since then are worth the
> effort to migrate.
>
> http://www.apple.com may have the happy place solution for you.
>
> <total snark mode>
>
> It must truly suck to be in your situation. Stuck with a bazillion year old
> distro and incapable of upgrading and then no one on ALE gives a crap enough
> to provide FREE help and suggestions because what you really want is for
> someone to compile it for you and hand you an rpm to install. My advice:
> STAY AWAY FROM GENTOO!!!
>
> and you probably won't like slackware either
>
> To paraphrase an idiot who keeps getting media coverage "Admin up".
>
> Several other people have jumped in your feces since I started writing this
> reply and they have let you know clearly that your tone in your responses
> was pretty nasty. So I'm just going to tell you this: go back and reread
> this thread from start to finish and pay careful attention to the tone of
> voice you use in your replies. Communication skills are usually pretty
> crappy in the geek realms and everyone could benefit from some better
> writing skills. Try writing poetry for a while.


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