On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Harish Pillay <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeffrey - > >> <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. >
yeah i know it's pretty bleeding edge. But i'm interested in that statement about "it got better because Fedora included it". I mean, there's like quite a big statement to make. I would be interested to follow if this were the case - but first I have to ascertain if this is indeed so. Looking at the site, I reckon the list I would be looking for would be at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#What_makes_Fedora_different.3F ? >> *(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. > got it. Thanks. > So, give Fedora a shot. You will not be disappointed. > I have a might big todo list, would you believe it. :) But i can at least add Fedora now to the list :) -jf _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
