And don't let the door hit you on the way out

[Gordon Messmer]

On 07/03/2012 04:10 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
> The precipitating event is actually caused by Windows, which will not
> accommodate all 24Gb of RAM I have on one machine without my paying
> blackmail (which I would have to pay over and over again), and Fedora
> doesn't even aim at being a replacement for Windows.

I'm reminded of ESR's vocal and high profile switch away from Fedora 
after he manually broke something that RPM told him not to.

I don't know if the Fedora maintainers aim at a Windows replacement or 
not.  I know that as a long time Red Hat user, I feel like I've seen the 
quality of the distribution, transparency and community involvement, and 
commitment to Free Software all increase over time, and I'm extremely 
happy with those things.  When my non-technical friends want a PC, I 
give them Fedora.  My mom runs Fedora.  The people I help have a secure, 
reliable system that offers them the software that they want.

I am confused to no end that a user is giving up Fedora because 
non-Enterprise releases of Windows don't support > 16 GB of RAM.