Slightly OT: bad rap for Fedora, and realistic effects

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Thu Feb 22 23:52:30 UTC 2007


On 2/22/07, aragonx at dcsnow.com <aragonx at dcsnow.com> wrote:
> > Well I'm not sure how many of you all have seen this:
> > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/22/207231
>
> Look, Linux has gained very large market and more importantly mind shares.
>  Along with this growth, has come diversity of code.  This is a good
> thing.  There are far more developers just working on the fedora project
> than there were total when I first found Linux (at least it appears that
> way to me).  Redhat will be fine.  Fedora will be fine.  I don't hear of
> many businesses using Ubuntu on their servers, do you?  It wouldn't bother
> me one little bit if Redhat narrowed it's focus just to the server market
> and left the desktop to other distros like the afore mentioned.
>
> Now, that does not mean that Redhat/Fedora don't currently have their
> problems.  I agree with the criticizem about the RPM and I've had more
> problems with FC6 than I have had with any release since Redhat 4.2 (I
> think it was it).
>
> Anyway, sure Fedora has lost some steam, I believe these things go in
> cycles.  People will step up and get things moving faster and better.  We
> are already seeing some of that (IMHO).  Be patient, help out where you
> can and everything will be fine.
>

Ok, fair assessment.

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