<div dir="ltr">This is an important notice, and a very effective point of view. But when it comes to debates and hot conversation regarding whether fedora is the testing playground for Redhat Ent. or not, it becomes a weak point I guess. But after all, nothing is truly free and to be honest fedora is one of the most stable releases among open source Linux bases operating system. Therefore, I usually tend to insure focusing on this point, "testing playground", and finish its discussion before I go into explaining more about fedora's features. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Anton Arapov <<a href="mailto:aarapov@fedoraproject.org">aarapov@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:56:59PM +0100, Jonas Karlsson wrote: > > After reading a lot of pressreleases and surfing around reading papers > in magazines about fedora, I keep wondering what is Fedora? And > specifically what is fedora to the general pulic! Don't get me wrong, > I've known linux since before RedHat was born, and been a fedora user > since early pre fc1. Why do I raise this question then? Well the tought > that occurs to me is: is fedora a community driven project or is it a > Redhat EL playground. Today it is both.... But when you read > pressreleases and info about fedora in the papers, fedora do not stand > on its own. Many magazines writes similair to: "Fedora is the test > version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux" and to me that has the sound of a > product in development or in beta. Then there are magazines that > occationally get it right and talks about a community driven project, > and the next thing that occurs is you read a copyright notice. When > installing F10 you get a "Copyright © 2003-2008 RedHat, Inc. and others. > All rights reserved." Well there is the 'others' part... but it do not > have the sound of community, well others.... I'm not writing this as an > against RH thing, if it hadn't been for RH, 'the linux os' wouldn't > progressed to what it is today. I'm writing this because I think it is > not entirely clear what fedora is to the general public. This is > important to gain ground, to get the message out that fedora is not a > testbed product, but a product that incorporates new leading edge > features. > > Am I compleatly wrong or have anyone of you been asking the question, > what is fedora? Fedora is the way how Red Hat contribute to Open Source and Community. -- Anton -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com">Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- Saadaldine AlSaidi IT Manager AlShora International Tayyouneh Rotary Old Saida Road - Princess Buldg. Beirut - Lebanon Tel: +961 1 391140 Fax: +961 1 381140 Mob: +961 3 934285 </div>