[Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO

[Dan Olson]

> When I look at the what linux was like 5 years ago and compare it to
> today I think that it's evovling the way I would like very nicely.

I realize I'm a little slow on my replies.  I really have mixed feelings 
on the way Linux has gone over the past 5 or so years.  About a year ago I 
replaced my main system (which serves as a server and workstation of 
sorts) with a used Pentium II running Debian.  I have used only Slackware 
up until this point.  The system basically was intended to serve as host 
for a couple X-terms as well as something I could telnet to with even 
older machines, and e-mail/web usage locally.  I was rather dissapointed 
with the amount of bloat just to get this done, my old slackware machine 
ran on a dual Pentium 100 w/ 64M of ram doing the same thing.  The Debian 
install lacked some basic niceaties (sp) like a video player, despite the 
extra amount of harddrive space taken over vs. the 500M drive holding 
everything on the old machine.  Don't get me wrong, I've never had to 
reboot the system and it's still working great on pretty old hardware. 
On the other hand, I could *never* get things to compile and run without 
help, it seems like that problem has been solved anymore.  I'm still 
fighting figuring out how to enable telnet and ftp in Debian, this stuff 
used to be pretty simple (not to mentioned enabled by default) in the 
past.

 	Dan