Conversion to Linux

[Jeffrey Watts]

I agree, Red Hat should never have distanced itself as much as it did from
Fedora in the beginning.  It was a big mistake, and they've mentioned that
numerous times.  The good news is that Fedora really started coming together
with about release 3, and the community and Red Hat are working really well
together right now.

I personally believe the two finest distributions out there currently are
Ubuntu and Fedora (of the non-business kind).  I've heard some good things
about OpenSuSE, but I haven't really seen any good examples of where they've
provided leadership recently, though.  I'd like to hear from folks who use
it though if I'm wrong.

And again, I have a pretty severe view of CentOS, one that's not shared by
everyone.  However after seeing the really slimy thing that Mandrake (now
Mandriva) did by taking Red Hat Linux, adding KDE, and underbidding Red Hat
on the Macmillan distribution deal back in 1999ish, I've become of the
opinion that it's important for the community to make sure to support the
folks doing the work.

Jeffrey.

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> At the very least, RedHat's PR people, CEO, and staff within the
> community all like (at least claim to) Centos. Centos may very well
> may be suggested more often within the Fedora community than Fedora
> itself, especially for stagnant server machines.
>
> That said, I think people consider RedHat's "splitting off" of the
> non-commercial portion way more contreversial than need be and take it
> way too personally.
>
>

-- 

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine
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