Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Sep 10 04:30:37 UTC 2007
Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> I'm pretty much OK with your summary...except for the last paragraph. I
>>> don't feel the intention/target of the Fedora Project was/is
>>> "Deployment in
>>> a large enterprise". If that is one of the intentions, I would like
>>> to know
>>> where it is stated.
>> It isn't, hence the necessity for Ubuntu or other distribution that is
>> intended to be usable. I just think the fedora developers could do it
>> better and keep the RH style administration so more people would be
>> potential customers for RHEL on their servers.
>
> I doubt customers of RHEL use Fedora as their decision making criteria. I
> know none of projects I've been involved with at large enterprises have done
> so.
Did a consultant or in-house employee make the decision? I deploy the
servers in our company, and the time it would take to learn the details
of administration on a different distribution is very much a factor.
> Along that line, that has also been the case for other consultants I've
> talked with. I don't feel my experience is unique.
Consultants don't mind having more billable hours... And they probably
prefer that the companies paying them have no in-house expertise.
> FWIW, I wouldn't deploy Ubuntu at a large enterprise either.....
What would you deploy that has firefox 2.x OpenOffice 2.2, and other
current desktop applications?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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