+1 for Jon!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Jonathan Roberts <<a href="mailto:jonrob@fedoraproject.org">jonrob@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I haven't sent this yet as I'd rather get other people's thoughts too,<br>
and I'm sure some are able to be far more accurate than I am!<br>
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best wishes<br>
<br>
Jon<br>
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I just read this article and was disappointed to discover that you<br>
seem to have severely mis-represented the Fedora Project. If I can<br>
take a few moments of your time, I'd like to advise you of the<br>
specific points in the story where you've been mistaken, and also to<br>
invite you to start a dialogue with the Fedora Project by contacting<br>
us on press AT fedoraproject DOT org to avoid making the same in the<br>
future.<br>
<br>
"...Red Hat has a preview of an upcoming Fedora Development release,<br>
Version 9..."<br>
<br>
Firstly, Fedora is not a Red Hat product but a community maintained<br>
distribution of which the majority of packages (over 60%) are<br>
maintained by non-Red Hat employees. Secondly, Fedora is not a<br>
development release in anyway, but a stable system that showcases the<br>
latest free and open source software. It's true to say, on the other<br>
hand, that Fedora is an innovative distribution that leads the way in<br>
the adoption and development of a lot of new technologies, feeding<br>
back all improvements and changes we make up-stream for the benefit of<br>
all.<br>
<br>
"Fedora 8 is the currently available development release, which got<br>
underway in April 2007 and which was launched last November. A lot of<br>
the code that was hammered out in that Fedora 8 development release is<br>
winding its way toward Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2"<br>
<br>
Again, any final release of Fedora such as version 8 is not a<br>
development release. A lot of the code from that release is making<br>
it's way into RHEL 5.2, but you know what else, it's making it's way<br>
into all other GNU/Linux distributions too including Ubuntu, Debian<br>
and openSUSE. This is because we push our developments to the upstream<br>
communities, which other distributions then base their own work<br>
around.<br>
<br>
"Remember, the Fedora 9 preview is just that--a preview--and is not<br>
even to be considered beta code yet and hence is not appropriate for<br>
anything close to production environments."<br>
<br>
I feel like I'm repeating myself, but Fedora 9 will not be a<br>
development release, and you're mis-representing the facts by<br>
suggesting that the preview release is not even to be considered beta<br>
software. The preview release is very close to what the final release<br>
will be, and is where a huge number of bugs will be squashed to make<br>
sure that the final release is on a par in terms of stability as well<br>
as features with any other distribution.<br>
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