This question is only for those who are in the decision making processes of Fedora. For the others, please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm simply just not interested in the personal views of the list membership, I know this will still attract those trolls who simply can't help themselves and need to make their comments, but unless you reply with a @redhat or @fedora email you will be ignored, sorry if it sounds harsh, but thats the way it is. After using Fedora and Ubuntu for a couple of years, I am wondering about Fedoras' future, so I have some questions to help me decide. Q1, taking into account Fedoras political and legal worries about patents and codecs, the stuff thats commonly used by everyone who don't care about and are not subject to U.S laws, will Fedora versions in the future offer something like Ubuntu, where as there is a "restricted" installed by default repo, to get codecs like playing a MP3 or movie, or automatically get and install wireless firmware/drivers, detecting whats needed, and popping up a warning that it might be illegal to use this where you live blah blah blah do you accept risks click OK and it goes and gets and installs whatever it is, just like ubuntu does? Q2, Will Fedora release a LTS (long term support) version that is supported for 3 years or so, just like Ubuntu. Both of these are important to anyone I know, and my friends I've tried to show both distributions to convert to Linux, say it's no contest, they say windows does it, ubuntu does it even for Q1 after accepting the warning, but Fedora wont, not a one of them, said they would even try Fedora because of this, which goes to standing maybe as to why ubuntu has become so popular so very fast, so will either or both of these be addressed in the future to maybe help save Fedora? Best, Laura Kolwen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
