On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 22:44 -0500, Wade Hampton wrote: > A couple of points about Fedora, YUM, and RPM. > > 1) Fedora was the outgrowth of RHL. However, Red Hat blundered when they > stopped selling RHL as an entry level product with by far the > largest mindshare in the Linux and business community. Wade, I couldn't agree more. I was in Chemical Marketing for 26 years and the one thing you never do is blow off your supporters. It made no sense and jerked off a bunch of people whose hearts and minds RedHat practically owned. Whoever made that call needed to have their head examined. > This has been a good thread. I hope it serves as a wake up call to > the Fedora developers and their sponsors, especially Red Hat. I still believe in RedHat, that's the helluvait. Fedora is a good concept but it doesn't serve as a drop-in-replacement for the olde 6.0 series boxed set for the Linux User. Yum beats the heck out of what we had back when, an over-burdened FTP site. Smart looks like a step in the right direction. RPM can be fixed. Right? -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================