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Red Hat Trying to Make Fedora More Open?
Chillybott writes "CNET reports that Red Hat is trying to bolster more support for the Fedora project by giving the users more control over and input into the development process. The article states that they have made their CVS repositories visible and hints that soon members of the Fedora community will be able to act as distribution maintainers.
Seems like a good idea to me, although their choice of acronyms for their conference leaves something to be desired."
I think RedHat should somehow also support gentoo - it is very popular distro now and everyone will benefit if such a huge linux brand as redhat whould help it.
They can merge Fedora and Gentoo, or just dedicate developers to some key gentoo projects. I don't think that a million of a slightly different linux distribution is a good thing - we *must* unite if we want to get more market share.
The bug was that after installing Fedora on a system with Windows XP, the master boot record would be corrupted and you couldn't boot Windows XP anymore.
This is the bugzilla entry. It was present in Core 2.
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Comment 161 says it is also present in Fedora Core 3. I guess it does not affect everyone who installs Fedora on a system with Windows XP on it.
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein
> 2, I switched to SUSE and never looked back
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/var/www/html directory, no /etc/php.d, apache doesn't really work well with PHP, no SELinux, no eclipse java compiler or any other enhancement I expect from a modern distribution.
Funny, but I switched from Suse to FC2, which I think is the best distribution I've ever had on my laptop.
> I've heard Core 3 isn't as full of bugs
It's much worse. SELinux is on by default which means that 90% of the demons don't work anymore, insert a usb stick the gnome file manager pops up and then the kernel crashes, emacs 21.3 is completely broken in the de_DE locale: iso-level-shift key termiates isearch, X11 now uses an advanced mousepad driver, which is, at least on my laptop, completely unusable in the default configuration, gcj has been patched to death (well, it could be a problem in the upstream 4.3 gcj, the gcc3.3, gcc4/gcj4 are RPM's are okay), it is impossible to compile and a simple java program with gcj3.4 which uses a hashtable through JNI,
In fact the only reason I use FC3 is to test my applications under SELinux. For everything else I boot my laptop into FC2.
> compare SUSE 9.2 Porfessional to Redhat WS
Well, Suse is dead. It was a very good distribution 3 years ago. But now? No