why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Luis Villa wrote:

> On 1/3/07, Michael Tiemann <tiemann at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 21:10 +1100, Rob Garth wrote:
>> > I am not part of the Fedora Project and so I guees my opinion is
>> > fairly meaningless but on the LTS support stuff. FC6 is the upstream
>> > of RHEL5.
>> 
>> ...and so much more.  It is not *just* the upstream of Red Hat's
>> commercial products.
>
> Sure, but that is still the primary motivation for most of the hours
> and money that goes into Fedora. To pretend that that is just one goal
> among many makes Fedora look dishonest. To be sure, it is admirable
> (and I think admired) to say that the long-term goal is for RHEL to be
> just one consumer among many. But that isn't the reality on the ground
> right now, and to deny that (as many Fedora-affiliated people have
> tried to do from time to time) is silly.

+1.

It's worthwhile stating, as a goal, that Fedora seeks to be the upstream 
for many projects -- but RHEL will *always* be the, ah, "first among 
equals" in that regard.

--g

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