+1 for Jon! On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Jonathan Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't sent this yet as I'd rather get other people's thoughts too, > and I'm sure some are able to be far more accurate than I am! > > best wishes > > Jon > > ------------------------ > > I just read this article and was disappointed to discover that you > seem to have severely mis-represented the Fedora Project. If I can > take a few moments of your time, I'd like to advise you of the > specific points in the story where you've been mistaken, and also to > invite you to start a dialogue with the Fedora Project by contacting > us on press AT fedoraproject DOT org to avoid making the same in the > future. > > "...Red Hat has a preview of an upcoming Fedora Development release, > Version 9..." > > Firstly, Fedora is not a Red Hat product but a community maintained > distribution of which the majority of packages (over 60%) are > maintained by non-Red Hat employees. Secondly, Fedora is not a > development release in anyway, but a stable system that showcases the > latest free and open source software. It's true to say, on the other > hand, that Fedora is an innovative distribution that leads the way in > the adoption and development of a lot of new technologies, feeding > back all improvements and changes we make up-stream for the benefit of > all. > > "Fedora 8 is the currently available development release, which got > underway in April 2007 and which was launched last November. A lot of > the code that was hammered out in that Fedora 8 development release is > winding its way toward Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2" > > Again, any final release of Fedora such as version 8 is not a > development release. A lot of the code from that release is making > it's way into RHEL 5.2, but you know what else, it's making it's way > into all other GNU/Linux distributions too including Ubuntu, Debian > and openSUSE. This is because we push our developments to the upstream > communities, which other distributions then base their own work > around. > > "Remember, the Fedora 9 preview is just that--a preview--and is not > even to be considered beta code yet and hence is not appropriate for > anything close to production environments." > > I feel like I'm repeating myself, but Fedora 9 will not be a > development release, and you're mis-representing the facts by > suggesting that the preview release is not even to be considered beta > software. The preview release is very close to what the final release > will be, and is where a huge number of bugs will be squashed to make > sure that the final release is on a par in terms of stability as well > as features with any other distribution. > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > -- Angel GPG key: 0xC4639705 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AshiqurRahman
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