[ale] Fedora grousing

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 10/23/2013 09:29 AM, leam hall wrote:
> Fedora is branching into it's own beast and losing any relevance to 
> those of us who like Red Hat. With the LTS option, Ubuntu is making 
> itself worth a look. From what I can tell, a lot of web based startups 
> are preferring Ubuntu to CentOS/RHEL. No one seems to like Fedora.

The only things I don't like about Fedora are things I also do not like 
about Red Hat.  Otherwise, it's just another Linux system with 
upstream-provided default configuration, like any other.  :-)

Honestly, if they'd just refactor the package management to be a lot 
more efficient than it currently is, it'd be just about perfect.  As it 
is, they've been layering things on top of rpm since the mid-1990s, and 
it shows; running yum on an R? is an exercise in hardcore patience.  
Even on my hexacore system with 8 GiB of RAM and 3 GHz per core, yum is 
/horribly/ slow.

There are some other packagers that have done part, but not all, of what 
is needed.

For the record, I'm not goo-goo for dpkg/apt, either.  I think it's 
easier to work with, and it sure seems most of the time to be far 
faster, but it has downsides that the RH tools have not.

Another project I don't have the time to do, but would love to work on 
someday.  *shrug*

     --- Mike

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