Kevin Anderson wrote:
I've never used Fedora. My last RH install was RH 8. We were screwed (corporately) by the changes when RH turned into FC/RHEL, and I've never used it since. Since it was the first time I ever managed to convince an entire company to switch to linux, I took it REALLY personally when support was more or less just dropped, and I was left to explain it to an office full of people who knew that their company had just been bet on a quickly abandoned product. That's probably the root of my anger. I would have been better off with Debian, because I'd have known where I stood.Finally I understand why you are angry at them; in that context, I might be as angry as you.
I've had similar experiences with Sun, and as a result will be hard pressed to use or recommend Sun products for something meaningful, regardless of their technical merit. And never mind what MS has done to their customers (including me) over the years.
However, you might exact more revenge by sticking to this fundamental business behavior issue, and your personal experience with it when you talk about RH. It remains a credible story. The technical shortcomings change over time.and therefore you may inadvertently do more damage to your own credibility than to RH's by talking about outdated technical issues rather than fundamental business behaviors you have personally experienced.
For example in my case, I refrain from saying anything bad about Solaris, since my knowledge about it has become quite outdated.
As for your pessimism about FC's future, you may be right - but many people said the same thing, when Netscape was acquired and then mismanaged by AOL.
Here we are a few years later, AOL has pretty much killed Netscape, but Mozilla in general and Firefox in particular are shining beacons of really neat software with a bright future.
So the optimist in me thinks, that since the FC 1 genie has left the bottle, you can't kill it anymore. Even if RH would walk from it, it might very well prosper like Mozilla.
A couple of additional notes on RH /FC facts:
* Did you know, that there is a "Fedora legacy project", which facilitates yum updating with free repositories for RH 8 and possibly as far as RH 7.3 (I'm less sure on the latter).
* I've had package dependencies resolved with automatic installations in RH9 / yum. I don't remember if it was yum or newer versions of RPM, which made it smooth. So that technical issue has changed quite a bit since your last experience.
...Niels
p.s. Does Gentoo have signed packages yet? It's one of the issues, which made me hesitate trying it so far..
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