[plug] Centos config at install and devices

[hatari]

So?

Gavin, good observation - which I support.  So?  What would you 
recommend?  Forget the "flame war" stuff; I am interested in your 
technical opinion and observations.  In the past I have seen Mandrake 
demonstrating good support for gui-based access to the whole system. 
However, in recent times I am not sure about the support factor - and it 
doesn't seem to be a recognised (or "quality") distro by SysAdmins.

Debian seems to have improved reasonably well in terms of "desktop" 
style accessibility.  But it still seems to required "digging" down into 
the "secret vaults" to do basic system adjustments.

I know Linux junkies love to knock Mciroosft but it has always allowed 
reasonable-to-strong access to internal system management and modification.

I want to be able to manage an enterprise&desktop Linux in a similar 
easy style, but the distro(s) developers can't seem to give me that 
consistency.  Linux takes a lot of time to understand, build and 
maintain cleanly.

Now; any tips?

wayne.


Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 20:46 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: 
> 
>>On Sun, Aug 06, 2006, hatari wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have tried many distros and each one seems to have some kind of 
>>>downside in the admin area.  This is probably due to the broad "church" 
>>>that looks after distro development.  Nothing seems to be elegant or 
>>>sweet, but mostly troublesome - no matter what you try to do.
>>>
>>>Any tips?  Is it worth it?
>>
>>I hate to start a flame war - but have you tried Ubuntu?
> 
> 
> Hmm ... yes, well :-/
> 
> Centos seems to have a great community concept behind it and seems very
> promising.  However, I find from my own experience - and reports on
> mailing lists - that all of the Redhat/Fedora/Centos family are
> seriously lagging in hardware detection and control.  Because of that, I
> used to be a committed Fedora user, but not anymore.
> 
> If you really want to persist with the Redhat/Fedora/Centos family I
> think you have to be determined to 'get-down-and-dirty' with the config.
> files.  Sometimes, even then things don't work.  Seems you have to pick
> and choose your distro based on hardware.  Sad, but true.
> 
> Gavin.        
> 
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