Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora

[Steven Moix]

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 10:51 -0300, Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira wrote:

> So, we are working here to recommend Red Hat and CENTOS ??
> 
> That's the question, Ubuntu has a LTS, Fedora don't! That's the main
> problem of the Fedora Project.
> 
> Today, we have many users! With this idea to recommend Centos and Red
> Hat, we will have a lot of users in the future ?
> 
> Thinking in this way, we will hear frequently "Fedora is a beta tester
> version to add and improve technologies for Red Hat EL ".
> 
> For me and for marketing, it isn't a great decision!
> 
> Now i'm presenting lectures in all Brazilian states and i can't talk
> about this.. USE CENTOS OR RHEL. I have to recommend Fedora.
> 
> I'm here to represent and spread fedora, not Centos or Red hat EL.

Represent and Spread != Absolutely want it everywhere

This very problem is exactly why RedHat and Fedora split at the RedHat
Linux 9 stage. I don't see any solution to that apart educating people
that Fedora is not a RHEL beta. IMO, LTS is too much effort for too
little.

http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/09/16/video-the-history-of-fedora/

Steven