Re: [orca-list] talking gdm with orca in fedora

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

Don't forget to compare RHEL with Ubuntu Server when talking about
stability comparisons. I also wouldn't say Ubuntu uses bleeding edge
packages, especially in Ubuntu Server, although I agree they are newer
than what gets distributed by Red Hat. Of course, this has it's pros and
cons.

On 13/06/12 09:26, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Maybe so, but let me just say Red Hat Enterprise uses much older
> packages than Fedora. While Fedora is running Gnome 3.4 etc REL is
> still rrunning Gnome 2.x and accessibility is still a couple of years
> out of date comparatively speaking. However, on the flip side of this
> because Red Hat Enterprise uses stable older well tested packages it
> is far more stable than something like Ubuntu which  tends to run with
> the bleeding edge code and as we can see with 12.04 Precise not all
> the bugs were worked out of Precise upon stable release where
> enterprise grade Linux distributions tend to hold off on updates in
> favor of long term stability. Since Fedora, like Ubuntu tends to be on
> the bleeding edge, I'm not sure how it compares to Red Hat Enterprise.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> On 6/13/12, Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi, Robert,
> >
> > I'll try it out as soon as the installation kinks are worked out for
> > accessibility.  What little vision remains to me is good for telling
> > when the lights are on and off and for when it's day or night which is
> > essentially the same thing.  Not much use on a computer screen so
> > speech is the ticket for me.  I am keenly interested in learning how
> > to work with Fedora since it gives you aleg up on Red Hat Enterprise
> > Linux.  That seems to be where most of the Linux-based jobs are at
> > these days.  It makes sense to try and get some marketability in what
> > I learn about Linux since I spend so much time on it.  Who knows?
> > Some day, it might help pay the bills!  REL is very important in that
> > regard because it is so so popular as an enterprise solution.
> >
> > Alex M
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