[NCLUG] Fedora 6 and the RaLink rt2500 wireless card

[Chad Perrin]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:32:36PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:23:20PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >> Personally what I was responding to was the apparent assertion that a
> >> certain set of distros contained and/or forced the use of "distribution
> >> specific" GUIs, which:
> >
> >In that case, you were responding to something that didn't happen.
> 
> I do know that, in my case, I was responding to, at the core, your
> statements around:
> 
>    "they all seem to encourage distro-specific configuration tools "
> 
> which, in my experience with Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian, wasn't the
> case at all.  So I wanted to explore it further.  Perhaps I misunderstood
> what you were trying to say in the paragraph I reference above, but it
> seems like I'm hardly the only one...

I said "encourage", not "force".  I said "distro-specific configuration
tools", not "distribution specific GUIs".  The entire character of what
I said was changed when my statements were misrepresented.  That's why I
responded to the statements above the way I did.


> 
> So, yes, perhaps Stephen interpreted it a bit more draconian that you meant
> ("forced" instead of "encouraged"), but I still think at the heart of it
> that it's not really that bad in Fedora.  The I'm feeling lucky in
> google would, in under a page, get you where you need to go.

Not "that bad", for some definition of "that" I suppose, but bad enough
that it gets in my way and is certainly not optimal.

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