RedHat, Fedora future?

[Luc Bouchard]

Robin Laing wrote:

> 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>
>
Exactly how does Fedora (RH) not follow the FHS specs.  I briefly 
glanced at the table of contents and these distros follow pretty closely 
the hierarchy show there.

Luc Bouchard