Red Hat Fedora Linux: 9.5 Million Users and Growing
Posted by: Dummy00001
on November 23, 2008 11:13 AM
Ubuntu needs to launch ad campaign in N.A.: Linux != Red Hat.
I'm not sure if it is related to US being over top religious, but many people there still believe that Linux is RH.
Also, one may not forget that RHEL has deep penetration in corporations and Fedora is what RH recommends as free (as in "free beer") alternative to their RHELD (Desktop) which is bundled with support subscription. I'm always modded down for saying that (and there are apparently people who actually like Fedora), yet all people I know personally who use Fedora use it solely because their companies standardized (like in "vendor lock-in") on RHEL and only RH approved software is may be used. And guess that Fedora is only free - approved by RH - option.
What I'm getting to, is that people who use Ubuntu made a choice. Most Fedora users are just got "The Linux" shipped from HQ and are not allowed to ask questions nor voice their opinion.
P.S. Surprisingly to me, many *nix veterans after witnessing their companies adopting RHEL, recalled old days with proprietary *nix forcing companies into vendor lock-in. If you read their support agreement, it is very very far from being anything "open" or "free" and simply intends to scare customers from ever changing anything in theirs RHELs, barring people from the freedom of choice - essentially what F/LOSS is revolving around.
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Red Hat Fedora Linux: 9.5 Million Users and Growing
Posted by: Dummy00001 on November 23, 2008 11:13 AMI'm not sure if it is related to US being over top religious, but many people there still believe that Linux is RH.
Also, one may not forget that RHEL has deep penetration in corporations and Fedora is what RH recommends as free (as in "free beer") alternative to their RHELD (Desktop) which is bundled with support subscription. I'm always modded down for saying that (and there are apparently people who actually like Fedora), yet all people I know personally who use Fedora use it solely because their companies standardized (like in "vendor lock-in") on RHEL and only RH approved software is may be used. And guess that Fedora is only free - approved by RH - option.
What I'm getting to, is that people who use Ubuntu made a choice. Most Fedora users are just got "The Linux" shipped from HQ and are not allowed to ask questions nor voice their opinion.
P.S. Surprisingly to me, many *nix veterans after witnessing their companies adopting RHEL, recalled old days with proprietary *nix forcing companies into vendor lock-in. If you read their support agreement, it is very very far from being anything "open" or "free" and simply intends to scare customers from ever changing anything in theirs RHELs, barring people from the freedom of choice - essentially what F/LOSS is revolving around.
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