Re: what is fedora?
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:56:59PM +0100, Jonas Karlsson wrote:
After reading a lot of pressreleases and surfing around reading papers
in magazines about fedora, I keep wondering what is Fedora? And
specifically what is fedora to the general pulic! Don't get me wrong,
I've known linux since before RedHat was born, and been a fedora user
since early pre fc1. Why do I raise this question then? Well the tought
that occurs to me is: is fedora a community driven project or is it a
Redhat EL playground. Today it is both.... But when you read
pressreleases and info about fedora in the papers, fedora do not stand
on its own. Many magazines writes similair to: "Fedora is the test
version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux" and to me that has the sound of a
product in development or in beta. Then there are magazines that
occationally get it right and talks about a community driven project,
and the next thing that occurs is you read a copyright notice. When
installing F10 you get a "Copyright © 2003-2008 RedHat, Inc. and others.
All rights reserved." Well there is the 'others' part... but it do not
have the sound of community, well others.... I'm not writing this as an
against RH thing, if it hadn't been for RH, 'the linux os' wouldn't
progressed to what it is today. I'm writing this because I think it is
not entirely clear what fedora is to the general public. This is
important to gain ground, to get the message out that fedora is not a
testbed product, but a product that incorporates new leading edge
features.
Am I compleatly wrong or have anyone of you been asking the question,
what is fedora?
Fedora is the way how Red Hat contribute to Open Source and Community.
-- Anton