On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:37, Res wrote:
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Mark Hutchinson wrote:
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The move to fedora was a mistake for RedHat.
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WELL SAID!
RH have damaged there excellent name with this move, and being with the distro since it first came to life many moons ago, I never thought I'd see the day where I would even *dream* about considering using another flavour, but sadly RH have forced that into a reality, that unless reversed, I feel will also see thousands more move away from the distro.
I completely disagree.
Before Fedora was announced, I was about to give up on Red Hat (after using 7.3, 8, and 9, every day, all day) and begin searching for a distribution with a better update system, more frequent updates, and more flexible software sources.
I was starting to experiment with Knoppix and Gentoo. Red Hat 9 plus Ximian Desktop 2 plus FreshRPMs.net plus yum wasn't bad, but it was still too frustrating finding, adding, and updating all the extra software I wanted.
But Fedora looks like it will be EXACTLY what I want: fast, frequent updates, lots of rapid bug fixing, and lots of easy-to-configure software sources.
I also really appreciate the move to a community based approach, and am making much more of an effort to test the builds, and find and report bugs than I ever did for previous Red Hat releases. As soon as I have time I'll probably even start fixing bugs and submitting patches. I never did that for previous Red Hat relases.
I'm sure I'm not the only one. Perhaps some people will switch away from Red Hat because of the changes to Fedora, but I'll bet that there will be a net INCREASE in users.
Torrey