Red Hat Promises A More Vibrant Fedora

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 20, 2005 @02:50PM from the striking-a-balance dept.

loki99 points out a CNET story about the direction Red Hat's development has taken (and changes in the wind), writing "Michael Tiemann, vice president of Red Hat, admits that after exclusively concentrating on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in recent years, they left those 'early adopters' behind. 'It insulted some of our best supporters. But worse, we lost our opportunity to do customer-driven innovation.' Tiemann said." The recent Boston FUDcon (mentioned in the linked article) is one example of how the company wants to revitalize non-corporate interest.

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Re:Fedora by Kyouryuu · 2005-02-20 15:41 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Troll? I think he speaks the truth.
For example, is including an easy-to-use frontend for Yum right "out of the box" so difficult? Is there a reason why that cruel joke of "Add/Remove Programs (so long as they came off the installation CD and if not we can't help you)" still persists? Doesn't seem like it, but we've been stuck with it since at least Red Hat 9, if not 8.
To be fair, FC3 is a great deal better than FC2. But, for me, it's still one of the least polished distributions out there.