Slightly OT: bad rap for Fedora, and realistic effects

[Norm]

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.
>   
Some may consider it almost sac-religious to suggest the Fedora/Redhat  
have a specific out of the box desktop version.  In my opinion the big 
advantage of Ubuntu over Fedora is their basic install is an easy lazy 
setup.  While one can use command line in Ubuntu  it is not set up nor 
do I feel one is intended to use command line.  The majority of computer 
users do not want to bother with command line, they just want simple 
lazy administration.  I personally prefer to use Fedora but when I 
recently set up a laptop for my 85 year old father (his first computer) 
I went with Ubuntu.  I do not live close enough that I can regularly 
drop in to maintain his computer and wanted him to be able o do it 
himself.  While the cutting edge command line approach for geeks is 
preferable for most of us on this list the reality is most computer 
users want to be able to use their computers with as little technical 
skills as possible. Yes technically and for performance reasons command 
line is superior but if Linux is to have wide spread use the technical 
level of the consumer has to be considered, in my opinion the Ubuntu 
distros are an attempt to move in this direction.