I must say I was surprised how much traffic has been generated here andI'm actually excited for Fedora. It will become more of a community effort like debian, except without the very well defined goals that debian has. My biggest beef, is not with Fedora, but with RedHat's CEO and his comments. So I think when most people are saying "time to go back to Debian" they are not saying RedHat (Fedora) is now going to be inferior or what not, just that there is a difference in principles. I think that Redhat's CEO's comments could be damaging to the adoption of Linux. I have seen a direct contridiction to his assertion that Linux is not ready for the desktop. Everyone I have met who has used linux, enjoys it much more than Windows. I also come from a non-computer background. Using linux made me want to learn about programming and server admin stuff.
other places (say slashdot) over RedHat's move to spin RHL off and
create the Fedora project. People are saying things, like "time to
reevaluate Suse," or "time to go back to debian." While Suse and Debian
have merit on their own, I have to ask why are you saying such things
and expressing horror over redhat's move? Many on slashdot are whining
about not being able to use redhat for free on their servers any more. Clearly there are some things I'm either missing here, or everyone who
is saying such things is just misinformed. The Fedora project makes RHL
more debian-like than ever before. How is this a bad thing? Most of us
on this list have never needed the kind of tech support that RedHat
sells and as such we won't be impacted at all. Fedora is simply RH10 to
us.
When the time comes, I'll run Fedora on my servers. Why not? There's no reason at all not to. Fedora goes through almost the same Q/A as Redhat put RHL through before. Besides, the stable fedora stuff becomes RHEL, and I can always download RHEL packages for things like samba, nfs, and the kernel. Running Fedora on a server is no more unstable or outrageous than running Debian. Redhat is still going to pour money into their free Fedora distro; after all Fedora is the feeder tree for RHEL.
In short, I don't get what we've lost generally. Sure if I want support I'll have to pay for RHEL, but then that would have been what I would have done anyway.
One final trolling remark: If I was a corporate SuSE user, I would be getting a bit nervous about now. Novell has managed to kill or squander everything it has ever purchased: DR-DOS, Wordperfect, Unix System Laboratories (of if they hadn't sold anything to SCO), to name 3 companies/products. I think Novell finally "gets it," though, so I think things may be okay for SuSE and Ximian.
Michael
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