Red Hat Linux Project Merges With Fedora

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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I see a trend

[Anonymous Coward]

Red Hat, Fedora, Ass Hat..

Overlaps with Debian

[Anonymous Coward]

The Goals of the Fedora Project overlaps with the ones of Debian. Why I must use, report bugs, etc, to Fedora instead of Debian?

More important info from the FAQ

[stratjakt]

Q: How will The Fedora Project be made available to the public?

A: Fedora Core releases will be available as ISO images for both CDs and DVDs, and will also be available through other channels such as third-party online sales of physical media; distribution at Linux User Groups, included in magazines and in books, and maybe even handed out at trade shows. The bits may be actively pushed into Linus' anus. (Not all mechanisms will be used for each release, except that ISOs will be freely available for each release.)

Thanks, Moderators!

[Anonymous Coward]

So glad I could count on the Slashdot community to help me out with a Linux dilemma. Would this be called "support through obscurity"?

Exclusively Free- what a novel concept

[Anonymous Coward]

"The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum."

hmmmmmm... didn't another distro do this already? I think we call it debian. Perhaps trying something a bit more revolutionary like merging redhat/fedora/mandrake might be a better idea. They could then use that product to push into the desktop market. As for me I will stick with debian, aggressively free, and stable as hell.

CLUELESS UBERS? er.. USERS?

[Anonymous Coward]

I find it really amazing that people that are supposedly literate computer users find Linux difficult. Geez... My mom who is 78 started using RedHat Linux when she was 74 with RedHat 6.2. I have since upgraded her system to RedHat 9. She never used a computer before and after a total of 2 hrs training she has few if any problems since then.

People here that say they 'Just can't get the GUIs to work' must either be lame or lying about it. IF my mom can do it, then what excuse do you have?
geez.......

Re:CLUELESS UBERS? er.. USERS?

[scotch]

My dad's parents were both farmers, wheat, cows, chickens and other consumables. I recall visiting the farm up in the heartland as a boy. Even though gramdma and grandpa worked from sun-up to sun-down, they still had time to run linux 2 or even 3 hours a day. Grandma had linux installed on his old international tractor. The thing was slow to boot, but boy it was stable. Keep in mind that this was mid to late seventies. I don't know when my grandparents started using linux, but I do know they taught my father to run linux from an early age. Growing up on a farm, my dad has lots of fine memories, but none finer than the lilo prompt and his first command line script.

Our family comes from a long line of linux using farmers. Our anscestors came over from the chezckque republic back in the mid 19th century. Being poor and making a hasty departure, they couldn't bring many belongings with them. My entire family is thankful that my great-great-grandmother chose to bring her trust girdle which she had been running linux on for the better part of 15 years.

The family tree is a little hazier earlier than that. We lost a lot of geneological data during a hard drive failure in 1809. There are some old hardcopy records of running linux during the middle ages on a 85lb rock. There's also some folklore about an remote uncle who booted linux on his cancerous third nipple shortly before dying. From so long ago, it's hard to separate fact from fiction.

I don't have any kids, but when I decide to get someone pregnant,you can bet that I'll have by baby running linux by the time its 1 years old

Re:What slashdot "editors" are really doing online

[fault0]

Simply Apalling. Rob Malda is a thief, a crook, and a would-be pedophile.

just a typical slashdot editor. typical.

Re:WARNING Ophidian P Jones is a plagarism troll

[Ophidian P. Jones]

This is only the beginning.