On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:45, Greg Cox wrote: > > 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.
They are not "letting go" of any reins -- this is part of the FUD. They are merely allowing outside contributions and support, but the "reins" are still firmly held by Red Hat. It is a meritocracy, not a democracy. The project leader is a Red Hat manager; the steering committee is all Red Hat employees. Please re-read http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html and http://fedora.redhat.com/about/leadership.html > 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. Well you probably have at least 6 months if you want to stay with Red Hat provided patches; Fedora Legacy will allow for longer cycles. Personally I'm not nearly as scared of OS upgrades as others, but YMMV. > 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. I personally think that Fedora, with its whole set of Core, Extras, Legacy, will fill this niche more than anything else previously. I hope I am correct, only time will tell for certain. --Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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