Red Hat Linux Project Merges With Fedora

Posted by simoniker on Monday September 22, 2003 @06:06AM from the indiana-jones-delighted dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat has announced a merger of its Red Hat Linux Project with Fedora Linux, a group that has specialized in providing high-quality RPM packages for Red Hat. According to Red Hat, 'The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products.' From the FAQ: 'Rather than being run through product management as something that has to appear on retail shelves on a certain date, Fedora Core will be released based on schedules, set by a steering committee, that will be open and accessible to the community, as well as influenced by the community.'"

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Re:"Red Hat Artwork" by Lord+Kholdan · 2003-09-22 06:17 · Score: 5, Insightful

I think it's interesting that there is what appears to be a "core" part of the Fedora team focused on artwork.

This, alone, is an excellent move by RedHat to compete with Microsoft in a space they clearly lead the market - desktop UI.

As the Fedora site says, "Making things look pretty is the name of the game."

Unfortunately what needs improvement is the GUIs of the programs, not the desktop itself. Even the best desktop is no use if 2/3 of programs have awful GUI or are commandline only.