On Tuesday 22 April 2008 12:43:34 pm Robin Laing wrote: > I came across this article and as a Fedora user at home and work, I > think this is important to know. > > A few weeks ago, there was a discussion about Ubuntu on this list and I > feel that this is part of that discussion. > > ----Article link---- > > The Biggest Blunder: Or why Red Hat and Novell just left the door wide > open to Ubuntu > http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/102011/index.html > > In recent announcements both Red Hat and Novell made it pretty clear > that their foray onto the desktop would be delayed quite a bit longer. > What they do not know is that they just left the door wide open for > Ubuntu to conquer the desktop and the server space. > ----/Article link----- > > > Basically, both Novell and RedHat are backing away from pushing Linux to > the desktop. But Ubuntu is not backing away. > > As a Fedora user, I see this as an issue. At home I need games and the > applications that my family use. To date I have not had issues with > Fedora up to 7. When I updated my machines at home, there were > applications that I couldn't get for F8 so I installed F7. I have not > checked to see if these are available for F8 at present. But they were > available for the latest release of Ubuntu. > > I am interested in others views on this. > > -- > Robin Laing I am actually an openSUSE user although I do use RHEL / CentOS in the enterprise. Why don't I use Ubuntu? No choice of installed software at the beginning (ala the Microsoft Way). No choice of Desktop Environments (sure you have the other sister distributions, but they are not at the same feature level of Ubuntu). Why don't I use Fedora? I used to, however I was dissapointed with how they handled things around Fedora 4 (and lets not forget the SELinux Bust). Other then that, I do give every new distribution a run to see how it is progressing. Do I agree with them putting RHEL Desktop / SLED or openSUSE / Fedora on the way-side on prebuilt consumer machines? Sure it's their business decision (although Novell is historiclly pretty bad at making those). What would I like to see? I would love to see Fedora / openSUSE / Ubuntu as all a choice to be pre-loaded on machines but I think having multiple DE's may cause the inability for that unless they pulled onto a standard (I prefer KDE as a feature rich DE) Ben -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
