> I don't understand how the decision to make RHL less commerical, > and into more of a community-driven open source project, affects > its technical qualities.
IMO, it calls into question its stability. Which I'll go ahead and cop to: that's FUD because we've not hit steady state with Fedora. With RH letting go of the reins, I don't have a warm fuzzy that my not-work servers are going to be secure, happy, and stable. Fedora may be the greatest thing since the Frappuccino, but at this point I don't know how well/how long it'll be supported. The high release cycle could mean poking my head up every 2-3 months to do an OS patch, assuming there won't be a long series of eratta patches like we've had. RHL walked a nice line between MUST HAVE LATEST NOWNOWNOW (which is my impression of Debian's unstable tree) and "I could pass this box to my children and it'd still work" (i.e. RHEL). It worked well for home and small office without needing to fork over for RHEL or be always upgrading. And now, that niche feels unfilled. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
