Kelly Miller wrote:
Although I imagine people don't want to spend too much time feeding the
trolls, I want to at least be able to post something showing that I was
trying to do the right thing before I write this off as a stupid troll
argument. So someone want to point me in the direction of some evidence
showing how much of a lie this is?
"�My guess is that Novell tries to elevate levels of participation in
OpenSUSE because that�s the distribution Novell feeds on. It hopes that
it can hide in the fog while others do all the labour.�
This describes exactly what Red Hat does with Fedora. Not that it was a
bad thing, as everybody working on or using Fedora is conscious ofusing
a bleeding-edge distro.
So, to explain in more detail: Fedora was meant to help the development
of Red Hat�s codebase with the help of the community. Red Hat uses
Fedora (good as it may be) purely as a test-bed, where they can try out
new technologies that could prove to be too unstable for RHEL without
any risk. Fixes from RHEL don�t go upstream to Fedora because the
codecase it too different. Not because of evil intent from Red Hat�s
side but just because the enterprise-distro and the
bleeding-edge-testing distro are too far apart.
The only part that is really negative about Fedora is that something
doesn�t happen before a release that happens before openSUSE-releases: A
decided corporate effort at bug-squashing. It doesn�t happen because Red
Hat cannot afford to put its complete ressources at de-bugging code that
they won�t use for their commercial product anytime soon (while for
Novell it makes sense because openSUSE�s code goes back into SLED, soon).
The result is that Fedora is a fine distro but a bit rough around the
edges."
There's not much that's outright wrong there, I wouldn't worry about it.
You won't convince anyone any more than they will convince you, their
views are pretty set.
I use both, though mainly Fedora, and some others. I don't see a great
difference between the Red Hat and SUSE (and Canonical if it comes to
that) models. All have bleeding-edge projects where the adventurous can
cut themselves, and stable versions for those averse to pain.
All make a decent effort at bug-fixing and polishing the product. Where
sensible (eg FC<>RHEL5), I'm sure fixes are shared.
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Cheers
John
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