<div>On 12/15/05, Paul F. Johnson <<a href="mailto:paul@all-the-johnsons.co.uk">paul@all-the-johnsons.co.uk</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, > You make a good point. No need for Red Hat to take on the risks when > Novell already has. At the moment Fedora can still compete because of > repositories like <a href="http://nrpms.net">nrpms.net </a> on the Mono front, but out-of-the-box SuSE > is going to overtake Fedora. That is possible - anything is possible. However, if FC is going to be constantly looking over it's shoulder, it's going to get nowhere. Look at it this way. Debian is much revered around the Linux community, Mandriva is loved because people can just plug and play and SuSE, after a long time in the wilderness, are coming about now. The problem is that if FC had kept an eye one them, we'd have a distro which makes us look like a cross between Win98 (with a bit more connectivity) with the logic that surrounds the mess which is known as XP.</blockquote><div> What exactly is it that you think Fedora has that distinguishes it from the other distros? For me it's SELinux, and that is huge. But if XP had something like SELinux it would a great system IMO and I don't see what mess your'e talking about. Benjy </div></div>