More on Fedora

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

The article goes on to point out two software projects which aren't in 
Fedora and the respective upstream websites do not provide the latest 
packages. We probably just need to step in here and fill the gaps but 
there are probably some licensing issues to resolve.

http://www.gadgetwisdom.com/2009/03/02/more-on-fedora/
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After our post yesterday on Fedora, we received a comment from Paul W. 
Frields, who is the Fedora Project Leader and chairman of the Fedora 
Project Board. He wrote:

I think the idea that we’re “regaining” users implies that we lost them 
somewhere along the way, which isn’t what our statistics show. Rather, 
as the total size of the Linux-user pie has become larger, we’ve 
continued to grow consistently. There will always be distro-hoppers 
looking for that elusive perfect Linux distribution — and more often 
than not, failing in that quest — but in general the strength of our 
development model, rapid release cycle, and putting the freshest 
software in front of users in a stable, easy to manage platform have 
retained users’ hearts for a long time. It’s true that we may not have 
the marketing push of Ubuntu; it’s a fine distribution and community, 
but given the choice between marketing features and creating them, we 
definitely choose the latter. We’re very happy that many of the features 
we create are adopted by other distributions, because that shows, first, 
the strength of the free software development model; and second, that 
our policy of working directly with the upstream, as opposed to creating 
a crazy quilt of technically questionable patches in our own 
distribution alone, is the winning strategy for long-term sustainability.

And he is right, we were inaccurate with the title. Fedora is improving 
its share of the overall Linux market, which continues to grow
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Rahul