Some people mis interpret Fedora's Mission Statement.

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
>> because it gives me a chance
>> to try to bust the NUMBER ONE MYTH about Fedora -- that Fedora is "just
>> a beta for RHEL"
>
> Well, I suppose he can try to bust the myth all he wants, but
> available evidence consistently indicates that Fedora is where
> things get beta tested before they appear in redhat. That's
> why it is OK that NetworkManager isn't backwards compatible
> and doesn't properly support wildly uncommon configurations
> like "static IP" :-). That's why it is OK that gdm isn't backwards
> compatible and doesn't support wildly uncommon things like
> saving your session state. That's why Fedora users got to find
> all the fun problems with SELINUX before they dumped it on
> paying customers who might have reacted with torches and
> pitchforks.
>
> I like having a beta release of redhat - it gives me a place to
> test my software to find out what is gonna break in a future
> redhat release, that's why I run fedora, but please don't ever
> try to convince me fedora isn't primarily a beta for redhat,
> there are just too many facts standing in the way.


All the evidence you have stated points to Fedora being a ground zero
for ALOT of software development in Linux.

The fact that the people who pay a lot, most of Fedora's bills is
benefiting from this fact should be one to be happy about.

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