Make no mistake, I *WILL* be trying fedora. I'm hoping I will be pleasantly surprised and find that it's not that much of a change. I mean, come on, 7.3 to 8.0 to 9 was a change (remember the BlueCurve flamewars?).
Unfortunately, this summer I didn't have a lot of time to keep up with all that is Linux and Red Hat. That's why it's just hitting me now. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Portzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:07 AM Subject: [TriLUG] Switching distros based on marketing, rumor,FUD -- or based on technical merit? Over the past few days, I've seen a lot of people mention that they will be moving away from Red Hat because they don't like its "new direction." While I am fully supportive of choice in the distro wars, I don't quite understand the need to switch based on marketing information (or rumors of such), or FUD from various sources. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to use a distribution for its technical merits intead? For example, I've seen a certain other distro hyped as easier for new users, or better for the desktop. I tried to install it once, and the network installer crashed, reproducibly, so I went back to Red Hat. This is an anecdotal case, and not meant to be a criticism of this distro, but the point is it didn't live up to the hype for me. I chose not to use it because it didn't work, NOT because I thought Red Hat was "serving the consumer" better. Sure, the position and comments of a company are important to the general goal of Linux advocacy. I too am dissapointed in the Red Hat CEO's comments about the status of Linux on the desktop. But these types of things will NOT make me stop using Red Hat / Fedora, as I use them based on their technical merits. Fedora Core 1 hasn't even been released yet, and still everyone is griping that it's not for them. Why don't you TRY it first ? --Jeremy > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
