To me it looks like Fedora releases are being used to test and to pave the way for the commercial products of Redhat.
<sigh> Here we go again.
Please, instead of starting another to-me-it-seems, it's-obvious-that, conspiracy-theory, abandonment-tragedy thread... please read the Fedora Project's website. The first two lines indicate:
"The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and
community-supported open source project. It is also
a proving ground for new technology that may eventually
make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a
supported product of Red Hat, Inc."YES, Red Hat may and probably later will use pieces of Fedora technology for RHEL. NO, this is not the *purpose* of the Fedora distribution. For more detail see the "About" [1] and "Objectives" [2] pages.
[1] http://fedora.redhat.com/about/
[2] http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html
Many users are used to the stable products like RedHat 8 and 9, not to the experimental positioning of Fedora....
Were you around when RHL 8.0 and 9 came out? Either you weren't or you don't remember people screaming *bloody murder*, begging to be taken back to 7.3 or even 6.2, threatening to go to SuSe, lambasting gcc-2.96, NPTL, take your pick. Red Hat Linux did a fair bit of pushing the boundaries and some people wanted lots more stability... they got RHEL. Some people bitched that RHL didn't move fast *enough*... they got Fedora.
This is not an *experiment*, damn it, it's an operating system that wants to be leading-edge. As such it's going to have some rough edges. That is the nature of the game.
Cheers,
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
