On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, John Dennis wrote:
BTW, the philosophy of RHEL (why it's "older"), the philosophy of Fedora (why
it's bleeding edge) and CentOS is explained on the FreeRadius FAQ under Red
Hat (http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ). It's incumbent upon you when
selecting an OS to install to comprehend the associated issues of that
choice.
Firstly, thank you for the very thoughtful and well-worded reply.
Sadly, the problem I am complaining about here is that so many people
spend so much time providing answers like this one you gave, when I
ALREADY HAVE THAT ANSWER. I'd already read all the FAQ's, and so on.
I quoted your above paragraph because it is central to my thinking.
I made a CHOICE. I was constrained by budget to 'free' software.
But I could have still chosen Debian or another 'newer' OS.
I CHOSE CentOS for it's *simplicity* and stability. I KNEW I was also
choosing to have fewer/older features. I had (and have) the option to
upgrade if it is necessary. But where possible, I try to work within the
'basic' framework of this easily understood 'basic' OS and environment,
so that for potential future volunteers life will be simpler. I really
believe that the problem here is my understanding of FreeRADIUS. It is
NOT a 'shortcoming' of version 1.x (at least I can't imagine why it would
be). All I need is a bit of advice or a pointer to a 1.x-specific
FAQ/howto.
So if I have any legitimate complaint against the "FreeRADIUS team" it is
only that with versions so 'close together' in time, there really should
either be a repository of documents applying to 1.x (similar to how Apache
mainatains its separate document trees for 1.x and 2x), or in the 'main'
documentation, there 'should' be those little footnotes that say "applies
to 2.1 and later" in the descriptions of commands. I put 'should' in
quotes, because I recognize that sometimes volunteers don't have time to
do these things, and I always try not to sound like I'm 'demanding' on
the time of other volunteers.
But yes, John, I *knew* what I was choosing. This is one reason I get so
incensed by people who clutter a group with replies that tell me I made a
bad choice. Not that their opinions 'hurt' me directly, but I am concerned
that people are hanging on the fringes, and perhaps have an answer to my
questions, but they see an 'official-sounding' response, and maybe they
think they're not "supposed" or "allowed" to answer questions about
earlier versions...... Sounds silly, I know, but people are like that. :)
Thank you John!
- Charles
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