[ale] udev file permissions

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Mon Mar 10 12:51:45 EDT 2008


Keith Hopkins wrote:
> On 03/10/2008 09:30 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
>> If there is one thing that is stopping Linux from better
>> acceptance, it's issues like this.  I was running Red Hat
>> Enterprise 4, syncing my palm via jpilot.  I do a clean install of
>> Red Hat Enterprise 5
> <snip>
> 
> Was that RHEL5 Server or Desktop?

Desktop.

> Looking at the difference between what is documented that each
> version will do, it is easy to see RH has taken a much different
> approach to fine tuning the EL5 products.  RHEL5 is much much more
> oriented to the Server (DataCenter), so I think you'll see less and
> less verification of potential problems like this from RH.  But hey,
> that's a business model of a single (although major) vendor, and not
> a technical limitation of Linux.
> 
> Nows your chance to try out SLED (or even Fedora).

I've already got Fedora 8 on two boxes.  I won't touch any of the SuSE 
products anymore because of Novell's collusion with Microsoft.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin


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