> After recently trying Fedora Core 5 and Gentoo due to the need to > run the new free VMWare server product, I decided that Fedora has > gone beyond bloated and sucky, and that if I were to ever > prefessionally recommend any Linux flavors, they'd be Gentoo and > the free Redhat Enterprise clones (Whitebox, etc.).
The fact that you still recommend RHEL clones shows that RedHat's influence isn't going anywhere. As long as RH can put out a product that people are willing to clone, they'll do just fine. Because when people and projects get hooked on a RHEL clone distro, there is a better than fair chance that if that project ever hits the really big bucks, that a large government or corporate client will want to toss RH a few big checks for their support and peace of mind.
Situations like the above are why RH probably doesn't mind that many beginners are in fact giving up on them. They have already passed the maturity threshold where they are focusing on bringing in that stream of aforementioned big checks, instead of relying on cultivating a large user culture so that sometime down the road, they can start bringing in those big checks.
For my own purposes, I coined the term "wipegrade". It's been a long time since I've felt comfortable upgrading a system, say from fedora core 4 to 5, or to a new version of winblowz. There are usually enough bugs with the upgrade mechanism, that it makes sense anyway to wipe and reinstall. Now add the peace of mind of nuking malware, and easing the process of reinstalling from scratch should really bad things happen, and wipegrading becomes the obvious choice.
With things like slipstreaming and user-generated livecds, along with the aforementioned motivations, I imagine that wipegrading will become easier and easier to do in the near future.
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How painless can it be to fork over a couple hundred bucks to microsoft? Oh wait, I forgot how it works...
-jdog
I bet there would be more posts about the synergy between this vibrating controller, and the new mmorpg call girl class...
> After recently trying Fedora Core 5 and Gentoo due to the need to
> run the new free VMWare server product, I decided that Fedora has
> gone beyond bloated and sucky, and that if I were to ever
> prefessionally recommend any Linux flavors, they'd be Gentoo and
> the free Redhat Enterprise clones (Whitebox, etc.).
The fact that you still recommend RHEL clones shows that RedHat's influence isn't going anywhere. As long as RH can put out a product that people are willing to clone, they'll do just fine. Because when people and projects get hooked on a RHEL clone distro, there is a better than fair chance that if that project ever hits the really big bucks, that a large government or corporate client will want to toss RH a few big checks for their support and peace of mind.
Situations like the above are why RH probably doesn't mind that many beginners are in fact giving up on them. They have already passed the maturity threshold where they are focusing on bringing in that stream of aforementioned big checks, instead of relying on cultivating a large user culture so that sometime down the road, they can start bringing in those big checks.
-jdog
For my own purposes, I coined the term "wipegrade". It's been a long time since I've felt comfortable upgrading a system, say from fedora core 4 to 5, or to a new version of winblowz. There are usually enough bugs with the upgrade mechanism, that it makes sense anyway to wipe and reinstall. Now add the peace of mind of nuking malware, and easing the process of reinstalling from scratch should really bad things happen, and wipegrading becomes the obvious choice.
With things like slipstreaming and user-generated livecds, along with the aforementioned motivations, I imagine that wipegrading will become easier and easier to do in the near future.
-jdog