[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 02:41:51 UTC 2008


Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> First you have to give someone a reason to want to migrate to
>> Fedora. With a planned progression to an enterprise version, that
>> would not really be a migration away from fedora but the expected end
>> point where you are permitted to continue using anything you've
>> contributed or developed for your own use, staying in the same
>> community instead of having all previous work dumped out the window at
>> the end of a cycle. I'll point out again that this is the way Red Hat
>> developed its popularity, although it was probably a mistake to have
>> tried to support every release forever.
> 
> Fedora is _not_ enterprise, it is _not_ in its goals, it is _not_ it's
> target audience. Why would anybody start on Fedora planning to "graduate"
> to EL?

For exactly the same reason that people used to use RH X.0 versions for 
development and testing, planning to  run their programs on X.2 as both 
their local development and the distribution mature.  That's what made 
RH popular.  And there is no equivalent now that Fedora never matures to 
a supported stable version.

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    Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com




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