Is Fedora for you?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

Expanded the section to include more information on Fedora audience, EL,
EPEL and other smaller tidbits. Please review and add your comments

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Is_Fedora_for_me.3F

Rahul

[Leonardo Menezes Vaz]

> Expanded the section to include more information on Fedora audience, EL,
> EPEL and other smaller tidbits. Please review and add your comments
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Is_Fedora_for_me.3F

"If instead, you are looking for a distribution that moves slower and
has a longer  lifecycle with commercial support, there are other
choices within the Fedora family of distributions including
derivatives like  Red Hat Enterprise Linux or free community rebuilds
of it might be more suitable for you and Fedora community enables and
supports this freedom of choice by providing infrastructure and
maintaining packages in the EPEL add-on repository for Enterprise
Linux."

(I'm new here and probably this was discussed before)

Why don't we have a kind of LTS version for some releases? That could
be really useful for those users who can't afford RHEL and don't want
use free community rebuilds. Fedora could be an alternative if we had
some version with a longer lifecycle, and I believe this could also
help RedHat too because there would be more people running on servers,
exactly where their product is more used.

More users, more bugs reported and fixed, more stability and reliability.

I'm a Ambassador here in Brazil and my role at the project is
promoting Fedora. Lots of people I talk here argue they don't use it
not because the bleeding edge software but because they just can't
reinstall a system every 6 or 12 months or upgrade to a newer version.
This same argument is often used by people who say Fedora is a
distribution for developers who want to aligned to brand new stuff and
not to Desktop users, for the same reasons stated above.

All we know Fedora is a great distro, and F11 is as good as any
mainstream distributions, but I just can't say people's arguments are
FUD, because they are quite right about what they say.

I know this may be not the main goal of this project, but a longer
lifecycle version in 5 or 6 releases could change this situation, and
also could help us reaching more users and different markets.

That's was my 2 cents. :)

Regards,

Leo

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 07/13/2009 05:42 PM, Leonardo Menezes Vaz wrote:
> Why don't we have a kind of LTS version for some releases? That could
> be really useful for those users who can't afford RHEL and don't want
> use free community rebuilds. Fedora could be an alternative if we had
> some version with a longer lifecycle, and I believe this could also
> help RedHat too because there would be more people running on servers,
> exactly where their product is more used.

This has been discussed many times in fedora-devel list before. Since I
don't want to rehash the same discussion, I ask you read up on the
previous discussions.

Rahul

[Gianluca Sforna]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Rahul
Sundaram wrote:
> This has been discussed many times in fedora-devel list before. Since I
> don't want to rehash the same discussion, I ask you read up on the
> previous discussions.

And the last time at:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/116737
in relation to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Extended_Life_Cycle

If you are interested, consider joining the effort.

[Sreeram Vasudevan]

Hello Sir,
I am student from SASTRA Tamil Nadu, India and I found that Fedora 11 is
really cool and ideal for educational and research oriented purposes. Many
of my friends want to do their academic mini project in open source platform
for which I feel fedora 11 shall be ideal. I want to spread the popularity
of Fedora 11 here.Could you please help me go about it? I m really zealous
and willing to promote fedora.I also want to contribute towards it.

Thank you and awaiting your reply

Sreeram Vasudevan
B.Tech IT
SASTRA

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe
that something inside of them was superior to circumstance !!!

[Frank Murphy]

On 14/07/09 07:49, Sreeram Vasudevan wrote:
> Hello Sir,
> I am student from SASTRA Tamil Nadu, India and I found that Fedora 11 is
> really cool and ideal for educational and research oriented purposes.
> Many of my friends want to do their academic mini project in open source
> platform for which I feel fedora 11 shall be ideal. I want to spread the
> popularity of Fedora 11 here.Could you please help me go about it? I m
> really zealous and willing to promote fedora.I also want to contribute
> towards it.
>
> Thank you and awaiting your reply
>
> Sreeram Vasudevan
> B.Tech IT
> SASTRA

1: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors

Join the "Ambassador* program, it can be very helpful
to .what you need.

2:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Never hijack a thread. Start a new subject.

3: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india

A very active Indian Community.

Regards,

Frank