Universities Dispute with Red Hat over 'Fedora'

Carl Lagoze points out that a pre-existing software project is already using the Fedora name, dating back to 1998. They're unhappy with Red Hat's claim to the name, and have objected.

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Re:Who cares?

[pyros]

I don't think the RHN server open source, In fact I'm pretty sure local servers were one of the features offered in the paid enterprise subscriptions. But up2date now supports yum and apt, to the point that the default configuration uses yum and not RHN. So you can set up a yum or apt repo and still use up2date/rhn-applet with your own private repo.

Re:Who cares?

[Spl0it]

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I've used Fedora on my home system and I thik it's pretty slick. It's definately a step up from RedHat 8 or 9. Did you read a review on slashddot to base your opinion? Try it for yourself, then decide. Doesn't Fedora allow you to roll out your own up2date repository, so as long as you can build your own RPMs and put them in there, you could have all your desktops update to the same software without having to rely on RedHat's very short product life cycle to keep support for your OS. Basically Fedora makes it more Your OS then RedHat ever did. This is especially attractive to the network admins who are running many linux desktops and want to roll out their own packages. I got to say that I love it.

Apparently you didn't RTFA, because were not evaluating the redhat Fedora project. Get a clue, and who the hell mod that Informative???