On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 06:27:10PM -0400, jeem machine wrote: > I was just wondering what the actual connection between Fedora and Redhat is. > Will they always be tied? > [jeem@localhost jeem]$ locate redhat | wc -l > 6011 > [jeem@localhost jeem]$ locate fedora | wc -l > 528 > Seems a little uneven. Can't we just get rid of references to Redhat. > This email is partly in jest but I consider myself a Fedora not Redhat guy. If you look at fedora.redhat.com, the link is pretty well spelled out. Fedora is Red Hat's baby, and it still looks a lot like Mom. There has been some change, and there has been a lot of s/redhat/fedora/g going on, but the transformation is not complete. The change from redhat-config-* to system-config-* is a good example of the work that has been done in this area. In my opinion Fedora is still a very young project (at least as an OS). That is easy to forget considering all the progress that has been made in just a few months. There is tension because a lot of things are still Red Hat controlled, and Red Hat still has it's stamp on everything, but things are changing. My response is to be patient and wait for change. I think we are moving towards a community where those of us who want to help really CAN help and not just complain. I think lots of good things are in the works, but the fact that these little details have not been taken care of points to the fact that rapid develpment is the goal, and cosmetic stuff is a secondary priority. I don't like opening up Mozilla and seeing lots of Red Hat book marks with no mention of Fedora, but really it doesn't impare the way Mozilla works. I'm running Mozilla 1.7 and OpenOffice 1.1.2 on FC3test1 and waiting to see what GNOME 2.7 looks like. To me it's worth a few blemishes to have all this cool stuff, and I know the blemishes won't be here forever.
