[ale] NanoPC

Thu Mar 6 11:15:58 EST 2014

I constantly argue with my manager about Debian vs CentOS (RHEL) for
servers :-\

also OS X is a pretty great OS for desktop/laptop usage.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> yep!
>
> Fedora has a pretty robust wart removal process. Things like Spacewalk,
> FreeIPA and ovirt work FAR better than the RHEL versions. Of course the
> RHEL version is several versions back from the Fedora one so it still has
> the warts from that release.
>
> Now that the fedup process JustWorks! running a Fedora server got much
> easier. RHEL will be incorporating a tool like fedup into RHEL7 and
> possibly backporting it to RHEL6.  YAY!
>
> Of course a general purpose OS that is truly wart-free is such a fantasy
> that it's laughable. With all the warts in Ubuntu and Debian and all the
> rest, I really feel pity for the poor schleps that spend their days on a
> windows server system.
>
> I laugh at the "professional" sysadmins who are Apple geeks. They all work
> retail. BWAHAHAHAHA! "Can I get you a latte while you wait for me to fix
> your laptop?".
>
> BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at dsservices.com>wrote:
>
>> That's why Fedora exists...
>>
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>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of leam
>> hall
>> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 10:07 AM
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [ale] NanoPC
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>> I wish Red Hat put some effort into removing the warts, though.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at dsservices.com>
>> wrote:
>> > +3
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>> > Jim Kinney
>> > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 6:44 PM
>> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> > Subject: Re: [ale] NanoPC
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > general orneriness and curmudgeonly character :-)
>> >
>> > Some of us "professionals" view certain distros as "hobby market only".
>> > Ubuntu (even LTS) fits that for me. Too much stuff that was fixed over
>> > a decade ago in other "professional class distros" is still wonky in
>> Ubuntu.
>> >
>> > And then there's the funky, not so cool, not really in the spirit of
>> > GNU/Linux/OpenSource shenanigans like the data pump to upstream
>> > sources of search data, the "let's just fork everything and do our way
>> > so we don't have to play well with others" mentality and some other
>> > stuff that has rubbed me personally the wrong way over time with Ubuntu
>> leadership.
>> >
>> > So, yeah. I'm a distro curmudgeon. I've got 15+ years experience with
>> > "The RedHat Way" and while it's got it's share of warts, there's a
>> > core bunch of stuff that just always works on an install and they keep
>> > spending money buying closed source stuff and open sourcing it,
>> > pushing it to Fedora upstream and funding rewrites to get rid of the
>> > last bits of code that can't be open sourced due to license issues. If
>> > Debian had any money, they would do that as well, I suspect.
>> >
>> > No real flame intended from me. Just poking a bit of fun.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > On what basis do you deem it not Linux?
>> >
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>> > On Mar 5, 2014 5:45 PM, "James Taylor"
>> > <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > I've never considered Ubuntu to be linux....
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > James Taylor
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>>> Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> 3/5/2014 4:14 PM >>>
>> > It supports Android/Ubuntu/Linux ???? I thought Ubuntu was Linux????
>> > Did I miss something in the news about Ubuntu?????
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> http://nanopc.org/NanoPC-T1_Feature.html
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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