Re: Fedora Project as learning medium for experts survey

Without a doubt. The opensource ideal behind the GNU license is still without boundary or limitation as far as learning and developing systems and networks is concerned. The easy installation and ability of the user to learn and develop from that foundation been since the major source of interactivity people have had with linux since I started using it back in 1994-5.

While other operating systems can be said to be System V compatible - which linux isn't - they tend also to differ in many major ways (from each other) which creates a problem of interoperability for developers and traditionalist users alike.

I think fedora and not only fedora - but the fedora repositories offer a complete way in which to use the platform in any capability - development, workstation use, or system servers without having to worry as much about underlying security and upgrade issues as have had to in the past. While fedora isn't responsible for much of this, I think the distribution has started at a time where this is the main benefit of using linux as a platform for any of these tasks over other operating systems which are still a huge manual workload just to keep things running.

I would suggest however that System V compliance would make any version of linux a good choice for anyone anywhere - if it were possible with the GNU framework - I'm no expert on the law involved.

TheFinn.

Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:

Experienced users and developpers,

	I'm writing an essay for the University of Paris V / Ergonomics
Lab concerning the learning mediums for future experts.  The aim of this
email is to collect testimonies.

	Please answer as soon as possible (immediately), the dead-line
for this survey is Monday 30 August 2004 included (UTC).  I think the
best is to reply this email to me only, not the mailing-list and wait
for the result (the essay).  Your answers may or may not be directly
quoted in the essay, and will be kept anonymous unless prior
authorization.

Question
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	Do you consider the Fedora Project as an efficient way for
future experts to learn to use software, maintain networks and to
program ? And why ?

Thanks

Pierre-Philipp