Jeffrey - > 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)?
All the examples would site at the fedoraproject.org site under features for all of the Fedora releases. [Trivia: Fedora was known as Fedora Core from versions 1 through 6. During those times, there was another effort called Fedora Extras that complemented the Fedora Core stuff. From Fedora 7 timeline onwards, these were merged and both "Core" and "Extra" were dropped.] I do know that there are lots of new stuff that show up in Fedora (like ext4, Xen virtualization, KVM, gnome, kde, NetworkManager etc). While that might lend it the label of being bleeding edge, generally the code base at release is fairly stable. This stability is increasing as Fedora continues it's 6 monthly upgrade/update cycle. > *(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...) Fedora will always be a Red Hat sponsored project and will always be free in both speech and beer terms. There are people employed full-time by Red Hat to only work on Fedora (Jesse Keating and Paul W Frields for example) and Red Hat does sponsor all of the server, bandwidth and related infrastructure needs. This sponsorship does not in any way dictate which way Fedora should proceed and given that the entire build, composing and release systems are public facting, there is a very community "smell" to it. So, give Fedora a shot. You will not be disappointed. Harish _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
