On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 22:44 -0500, Wade Hampton wrote:
A couple of points about Fedora, YUM, and RPM.
- Fedora was the outgrowth of RHL. However, Red Hat blundered when they
stopped selling RHL as an entry level product with by far the largest mindshare in the Linux and business community.
Wade, I couldn't agree more. I was in Chemical Marketing for 26 years and the one thing you never do is blow off your supporters. It made no sense and jerked off a bunch of people whose hearts and minds RedHat practically owned. Whoever made that call needed to have their head examined.
This has been a good thread. I hope it serves as a wake up call to the Fedora developers and their sponsors, especially Red Hat.
I still believe in RedHat, that's the helluvait. Fedora is a good concept but it doesn't serve as a drop-in-replacement for the olde 6.0 series boxed set for the Linux User. Yum beats the heck out of what we had back when, an over-burdened FTP site. Smart looks like a step in the right direction. RPM can be fixed. Right?