[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote:

> 2008/10/10 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
> > Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> >> Itamar - IspBrasil wrote:
> >>>
> >>> any chance to increase the life of fedora releases ?
> >>>
> >>> or fedora will be only blending edge ?
> >>>
> >>> In my opinion fedora is losing space from centos and ubuntu
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >>> The brazilian government, one of the biggest Fedora Case of the world is
> >>> changing from Fedora/ Red Hat to Ubuntu/Debian.
> >>
> >> The problem was at an initial point, when Fedora was considered "for
> >> enthusiasts only". A lot of previous "RedHat Linux enthusiasts" just
> >> switch to CentOS (and similar RHEL-based systems), no more using Fedora,
> >> because "it is marked as a non-for-production system even by its creators".
> >>
> > The fact that they switched to CentOS is *good* for Fedora.  CentOS's
> > goals are better oriented to the needs of someone that wants to deploy a
> > system and run it for years.
>
>
> They switched to Debian and Ubuntu. There is no evidence that they
> considered Centos.
>
>

According to the CentOS guys, they used CentOS at some point in time.

	-Mike