RedHat, Fedora future?

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Feb 5 15:50:28 UTC 2004


Here is an article about the future of Red Hat and with that Fedora. 
It puts to question about Red Hat's ability to compete with SUSE since 
it was purchased by Novell.

Red Hat or SUSE for the enterprise? Hint: Bet the chameleon
<http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/28/219249>

I like Fedora but I don't like that it doesn't follow the standards as 
laid down by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 
<http://www.pathname.com/fhs/index.html> for location of applications 
and files.  This causes some problems when trying to get support as 
the application site states one location and the file is in another 
location on RH.  This can cause allot of confusion with new users (I 
have seen it) when they have problems.

Standards are to be followed to ensure compatibility.  If things are 
not standard, it creates more work for software writers and thus 
affects support.

Linux Standard Base <http://www.linuxbase.org/index.php>

-- 
Robin Laing





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