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Red Hat Gives up on Fedora Foundation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tip-of-the-hat dept.

phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica writes up Red Hat's giving up on the Fedora Foundation: 'In an open letter distributed to the Fedora community earlier this week, Red Hat employee and Fedora project leader Max Spevack states that Red Hat is no longer interested in establishing an autonomous, nonprofit foundation to manage the Fedora project. Instead, Red Hat will revive the Fedora Project Board, which will include five Red Hat representatives, four members of the Fedora community, and a chairman appointed by Red Hat who will possess veto power.'"

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  1. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!

  2. Yaaah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Whoo first post!

  3. Total pwnage!!! AYBABTU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All your base are belong to us!!!

    So says Red Hat. LOL!

  4. Bush Indicts Self: +1, Extremely Funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    "We'll bring the parties responsible for the leaking of classified documents to justice.
                                              --- George W. Bush
    Take another snort George.

    Sincerely,
    K. Trout, Patriot

  5. I don't see the problem with FC by crossmr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm reading this on FC4, on a laptop provided by my school as part of my program. Originally it came with Dos, Windows Xp, and a bad install of RH9. I'd never spent much time on Linux prior to this, other than a weekend I fired up a knoppix CD a couple years ago, however in november I took the plunge and started using Linux exclusively. First thing I did was remove RH9 and install FC4. I had a book that had FC2 in it, but had some issues with it, so I downloaded and got FC4. I made sure that I could do all I needed to do for school in it and over the xmas holiday I removed the windows partition and migrated linux to the larger partition. School ends in 3 weeks and I'll be ghosting my partition and repartition this machine because the partition scheme is pretty much crap right now.

    As a complete novice to begin with. I broke lots of stuff. Once I removed windows, I took to keeping a "backup" copy of my installation. If I destroyed something on a lunch break and couldn't use linux any more, I booted to the other partition and copied it back over top. Now that I've learned, generally speaking, how to avoid causing meltdowns, I don't have that problem and I only have the single copy.

    Since I learned to stop breaking stuff, I haven't had a single issue with system stability or usability. Sure I often need to install a few things for dependencies, but I've discovered the joy of yum localinstall and I cuddle with fedoraforum and linuxquestions at night.

    I'm using gnome, though I also have xfce installed. I introduced a classmate to it because he wanted to learn more linux as well. Everytime I see him, he's running it. I've found or solved answer to most of our critical issues that would prevent us from using linux, and a number of my classmates have started taking the plunge. Not all are using it exclusively or are using FC4, but some are. They're really sampling though. I have classmates running gentoo, ubuntu, debian, and FC4. I think some people chose to take an already used distribution simply so they'd have someone else running it who's done it before so they can ask questions.

    But for those of us using FC4, maybe we're missing something, because we all thoroughly enjoy it. I'm going to be putting either FC4 or FC5 as a dual boot on my home system. The sooner the better because I need to set up a server to handle the image of the partition I'm making so that I can get this laptop working a bit better.

  6. Fedora isn't that Bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hae found this love affair with Debian to be a bit of a wonder, as it was one of the worst things I've ever done when loading it on my new AMD64 platfrom. A switch to Fedora x86-64 saved the machine as a 64 bit platform. Some good things can be attributed to Debian but support of new platforms isn't one of its strengths.

    As for Fedora, I keep coming back to it on my main platform. That is something considering I have spent considerable time with other distros. My experience with Debian on x86-64 was so bad that I don't see my self using that distro again anytime soon. At the time Ubuntu was crap also. The thing is that Fedora is bleeding edge enough to have interesting technology incorporated yet reasonable effort is put into it to keeping it stable. There are not many community distros that have as many new features working well together.

    Now some complain about bloat, which could be an issue on old hardware, but really guys this is the age of dual core and more technology. I don't see it so much as bloat as offering functionality. Fnctionality by the way which you have control over. It is not like OS/X or XP where your control is minimal at best. One also has to realize that Fedora is a platform for experimentation with functionality, no one has ever implied that Fedora was being built to be rock stable or completely free of hassles. It is certainly the platform for people with a little gray matter between their ears.

    Things like Ubuntu are interesting but really provide little over getting XP or OS/X. Frankly I wonder what the sense in installing Ubuntu really is, what advantage does it have over XP, when all the good points of Linux have been shingled over in an attempt to make it more like conventional OS'es. Has the Linux community become so weak of mind that they can't obtain traction in anything that is slightly differrent than XP?

    Dave