was just reading
http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2009/04/15/interview-with-ricky-zhou-fedora-project/
when I noticed this statement.
<quote>
A lot of these projects later become mature and popular and show up in
a lot of distros, but many showed up in Fedora first. Do you feel like
Fedora gets the acknowledgment it deserves for helping to make those
projects mature?
</quote>
Not to discredit any project, of course - but being ignorant of
Fedora... I'm just wondering, how true is this? Does anybody have any
examples (or anti-examples) to point me to? I'm also curious about
this point of "not carry(ing) a lot of distro-specific patches". How
true is this (witness RHEL)?
(Note that this is about me wanting to find out more about what might*
be an interesting distro to look at - and not about intent to
discredit)
*(and I use the word "might" - because i tend to not prefer projects
which tend to smell of a commercial hand in it. Perhaps Fedora is not
like that in the sense that the others are, where the "open source"
version is purposefully crippled, but at least in my mind, I havent
heard - or know - too much about Fedora to be able to let it shake off
that smell in my mind...)
-jf
--
In the meantime, here is your PSA:
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
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