Nicola Losito wrote:
When you install and run Ubuntu you got enabled a bunch of features that
doesn't make feel the user on his own (Gnome sounds enabled, when i'm
supposed to enter the sudo password the screen goes dark leaving only
the appropriate window "illuminated" and some other fancier - yes,
useless, but fancier things).
So boils down to eye candy basically.
The implementation of fast user switching has problems with multi user
terminals so its hidden by default in the menu. You can of course
enable it yourself if the problems dont affect your usage.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175178
I already had an answer some time ago with this topic, but haven't go
the time to read more and then try to make it work for myself. My point
is that the other distro i enjoy "testing" have it and reading the
answer "it's in bugzilla since $date" doesn't make nice impression.
It's clear that's a minor "bug", but i can see many people with always
on internet connection leaving their session opened, locking their
session when they're not at home and leaving a login screen available to
parents for a second graphical use of the machine. Comfortable feature,
if you think.
Its not really a minor bug. If you have multiple users working on a
console, how does device permissions get set that one user doesnt lock
the other?
Sometimes seems so .... have you ever tried using yum, with 3rd parties
repos enabled, on a 56k pay-per-time line ? ?
Back when i was one of those FC seemed to me a distro for privileged
aliens with fast/flat connections.
Why would I? I dont use third party repositories. If I need to work on
dialups, there is a way to configure yum to use local repositories or
media and Fedora might not be the right choice for me at that point.
Here i could make a mistake but:
- http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/components
it's clear in the division of what's "ubuntu" or "canonical" and what's
not and also ...
It is pretty simple for Fedora and it is documented in Fedora wiki
pages. Fedora Core is maintained by Red Hat and Fedora Extras, Fedora
Legacy is community maintained.
3rd party repo are natural in our free software world, everyone has
different needs and preferences.
What i find "insane" {meaning not healthy, not referring to the crazy
meaning} is the actual separation in Extras (which thanks to God and all
the good people out there is growing each and every day in package
number) and then the "Two Towers" of Livna "vs" dag-dries-freshrpms
world and the experiences coming from a partial use of them or worst an
"enabled=1" of all of them.
All of these references are about third party repositories. Fedora
Project has absolutely no say on what goes on with them. The formal
repositories are both enabled by default, Anaconda would support them
both during installation from FC6 onwards and they follow the same
packaging guidelines etc. The differences are in the way there are
internally organized which doesnt affect the end user at all.
Fedora Project should speak loud on this inconsistency (for the record i
have 14 different repositories in my yum.repos.d, some enabled some not,
and i do not think it's easy to get the reason of this to the "non
introduced").
There is no inconsistency at the project level and we cant control third
party repositories. There are contributors from kde-redhat, freshrpms,
atrpms,newrpms and other repositories working in Fedora Extras to . Dag
doesnt seem to host Fedora repositories anymore. Nrpms closed down
citing the increasing community participating in Fedora Extras.
Rpmforge has announced compatibility with Fedora Core and Fedora Extras.
Things are getting better but if you want to install random repositories
that's really your choice.
Rahul
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