Re: Fedora

[amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk (Andrew M.A. Cater)]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:47:07AM -0800, ken keanon wrote:
> Hi,
> This Fedora project is developing along the same line as Debian i.e. community-base, open-sourced. What's more, It is supported by RedHat. 
>  
> Anybody has any opinion about it? Is it better than Debian?
>  
> Ken
>  
Is an orange better than a grapefruit? Everything has its purpose.
For some people Fedora will be better/more up to date or whatever.

Red Hat now produce Red Hat Enterprise Linux as their main moneyspinner.
They don't produce a "John/Jane Doe" distribution for the world any
more.  They did - from Red Hat 4.x to Red Hat 9.  Acknowledging the 
fact that they are using open source, they've changed their development
tree into a community based distribution.  Fedora Core is changing
fairly rapidly: it's only guaranteed to be there for six months at a
time.  Periodically, they fork RHEL from Fedora and carry on producing
beta versions for the world.

Given that, and the fact that Fedora probably includes less than Debian
in terms of packages: I personally would stick with Debian.

If you are a long time RH user, much of Fedora will seem familiar.
Some people have mumblings that Fedora isn't open enough and transparent
enough about the development process.

Horses for courses, I suppose.

Andy
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