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Revealed: How Fedora And The Community Interact
bakwas_internet writes "Konstantin Ryabitsev sent a funny
message in form of a irc chat log, revealing how Fedora and the Community Interact, to the development discussions mailing list related to Fedora Core.The story also appeared at lwn.net
and OSnews."
1. With 1-2 new stories an hour, even your 1 in 10 figure means 3-4 tech news stories a day. There's just not that much tech news out there each day. Even check out http://www.cnn.com/tech/, sometimes they don't update that page for days. Feature stories and "filler" are a reality, so deal.
2. The tagline is "New for news, stuff that matters". If you're going to make a point with it, at least get it right.
3. If you don't like the stories, submit better ones. Remember, 99.9% of the stories are user-submitted, so the solution is in your hands!
This is exactly why I love Debian: it's the community. Yes, many Red Hat employees are deeply involved in the GNU/Linux community; but it seems to work both ways with Debian: the members of the GNU/Linux community affect Debian's direction substantially.
Red Hat ships its software as a "complete package", so to speak. You buy the CDs and put them in and install, and that's what you've got. Debian is much more of a "work in progress" that you can actually become a part of. You download the 50-meg install image which fetches a snapshot of what the developers are working on. That seems much more honest to me, because GNU/Linux is a work in progress and always will be.
Of course, some of Debian's politics suck. I run testing on servers and unstable on desktops because stable is just so damned old that it's almost useless. A six-month release schedule like GNOME's would solve this, IMO.