Posted by: Joe Klemmer
on February 19, 2004 01:42 AM
The amount of reviews and commentary on RH's move by uninformed biased "reporters" is becoming tiresome. There are so many misstatements and downright errors in this article that it's almost not worth reading. The entire article beyond the paragraph starting with the sentence -
> "Desktop productivity users may hardly notice the difference between the two products."
is a waste of bits. None of the things brought out in the later part of the article are remotely pertinent to RHPW. No one with more than two brain cells is going to run it as a business/production server. The comment -
> "The Fedora Project offers an attractive Red Hat-based desktop environment, with
> newer packages and a Red Hat Network-like update service, although without
> any support or Service Level Agreements."
is particularly annoying because you could actually replace "Fedora Project" with Debian, Mandrake, Xandros, Linuxos, Lycoris, or any of the other distros low-end offerings. There's no SLA's and minimal support for any of these.
The bottom line is that for anyone who has been using RHL up to version 9 the next logical step is Fedora. Fedora Core 1 is exactly what RH 10 would have been, only much more so. It's already got the infrastructure and capacity that took Debian years to achieve.
Linux is not going to be helped by the constant infighting and hatred that seems to be a part of the communities need to bash distros or desktops or even such trivial things as mail clients. All of the Linux distributions are excellent! They all have a place in the world and all do great things. We must stop bashing the very thing we are trying to promote!
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Posted by: Joe Klemmer on February 19, 2004 01:42 AM> "Desktop productivity users may hardly notice the difference between the two products."
is a waste of bits. None of the things brought out in the later part of the article are remotely pertinent to RHPW. No one with more than two brain cells is going to run it as a business/production server. The comment -
> "The Fedora Project offers an attractive Red Hat-based desktop environment, with
> newer packages and a Red Hat Network-like update service, although without
> any support or Service Level Agreements."
is particularly annoying because you could actually replace "Fedora Project" with Debian, Mandrake, Xandros, Linuxos, Lycoris, or any of the other distros low-end offerings. There's no SLA's and minimal support for any of these.
The bottom line is that for anyone who has been using RHL up to version 9 the next logical step is Fedora. Fedora Core 1 is exactly what RH 10 would have been, only much more so. It's already got the infrastructure and capacity that took Debian years to achieve.
Linux is not going to be helped by the constant infighting and hatred that seems to be a part of the communities need to bash distros or desktops or even such trivial things as mail clients. All of the Linux distributions are excellent! They all have a place in the world and all do great things. We must stop bashing the very thing we are trying to promote!
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