I have to admit the Fedora project very much seems to be akin to the Mozilla spin-off from Netscape. Of course this seems to have gone very well, and even resulted in further user-driven developments such as Firebird and Thunderbird. It will be interesting to see if the Linux community becomes more fractured because of this, or unites behind one or two distributions. (Most of the analyses of linux market share always have Red Hat at least 50%, so there are a lot users that will need to find a new place to hang their hat on (no pun intended!))
Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security Consultant Technology & Infrastructure - Consulting & Integration HP Services 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone *: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile *: +61-411-254-513 Fax 7: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail * : martin.visserAThp.com -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Bennetts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 4 November 2003 3:25 PM To: Sydney Linux User Group Subject: Re: [SLUG] No more Red Hat Linux support after April 30 2004 - QuickSurvey On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:11:51PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 15:07, Andrew Bennetts wrote: > > While it's got a new name and a more open development process than > > Red Hat Linux, as I understand it it's still essentially the same > > system, so I'm curious as to why Red Hat Linux becoming Fedora is a > > reason to switch to Debian? > > Debian has 10 years experience at community driven linux. Red Hat has > none. (Well, not -quite- true. But close enough). On the other hand, Red Hat's engineering team is still involved in producing Fedora, they're just opening up the development process to non-Red Hat contributors as well (or so it seems from reading http://fedora.redhat.com/). It reminds me of how Mozilla was developed until quite recently. So my guess was that people would've looked at Fedora as being like Red Hat Linux, only better... but judging from responses from actual Red Hat users, that's not necessarily the case. Just goes to show how little this Debian user knows about Red Hat ;) -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
