60% of Fedora packages obsolete

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca
Mon Jul 20 21:41:06 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 15:27 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I've always found that some Fedora policies are far from as bleeding
> edge as observers would believe.
> 
> However, this seems to place Fedora in a weird position -- between
> what most now consider to be the bleeding edge distro, Arch,. and what
> many consider to be the stable distro, Ubuntu. What niche does fedora
> intend to fullfill?

Well, considering other distros end up using tools developed by Red Hat
and perfected in Fedora, you tell me.

If another distro ever ends up influencing (i.e. technology wise) the
Linux and overall F/OSS landscape more than Red Hat does, that's when
I'll worry.

Regards,

Ranbir

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