why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 3 16:59:35 UTC 2007
Luis Villa wrote:
> On 1/3/07, Michael Tiemann <tiemann at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 21:10 +1100, Rob Garth wrote:
>> > I am not part of the Fedora Project and so I guees my opinion is
>> > fairly meaningless but on the LTS support stuff. FC6 is the upstream
>> > of RHEL5.
>>
>> ...and so much more. It is not *just* the upstream of Red Hat's
>> commercial products.
>
> Sure, but that is still the primary motivation for most of the hours
> and money that goes into Fedora. To pretend that that is just one goal
> among many makes Fedora look dishonest. To be sure, it is admirable
> (and I think admired) to say that the long-term goal is for RHEL to be
> just one consumer among many. But that isn't the reality on the ground
> right now, and to deny that (as many Fedora-affiliated people have
> tried to do from time to time) is silly.
It's not. Think OLPC for example. There is also stuff out there like
Sony play stations, Cell processors etc. It already is being used as a
base for variety of stuff out there.
Rahul
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