[PLUG] Fedora change...

Michael C. Robinson michael at robinson-west.com
Tue Nov 11 22:13:02 UTC 2003


The current Redhat direction is expensive, I hope this doesn't
eventually happen to all distros.  I hope Fedora isn't more 
feature burdened than Redhat.  One of the problems with Redhat 
is that the bugs in one release will probably not get cleaned 
up before the next major release.  I wonder in debian land if 
this is the case?  The 7 series impressed me, but what happened
jumping from 8 to 9 and now 10?

I hope Fedora isn't blood everywhere broken.

I'm not really all that interested in going that route yet.
I don't like the idea of getting a version 1 system.  Over 
$100 for Redhat Enterprise, that's as much as XP.  What is 
so big about support contracts anyways?  Maybe I should do
debian on my next box and see about migration, but which 
release do I use for a server?  How can I establish a 
local debian depository on my network?  

I really liked slackware, seems in later years though that
it ran into problems.  How do you network install slackware
anyways?  What I've heard is that debian is the 
engineer's system of choice over Slackware.  Has package
tool been fixed?  It was broken in Slackware eight.

I'm surprised Redhat doesn't do OEM direct to ordinary people.
Setting a system up for a customer choosing the hardware can
save money on remote support.  This service if priced right 
would be welcome by many people.  At least the customer 
wouldn't be getting XP.

Does anyone have initial reactions to Fedora.  Maybe Mandrake
would be a better choice.

     --  Michael Robinson




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