Red Hat Trying to Make Fedora More Open? 216
Chillybott writes "CNET reports that Red Hat is trying to bolster more support for the Fedora project by giving the users more control over and input into the development process. The article states that they have made their CVS repositories visible and hints that soon members of the Fedora community will be able to act as distribution maintainers.
Seems like a good idea to me, although their choice of acronyms for their conference leaves something to be desired."
Even Linux companies (Score:3, Interesting)
I like Fedora (Score:5, Interesting)
Currently I use FC3 for a desktop, and FC2 for a GIS workstation. I have installed Red Hat at dotcoms, small businesses, hosting facilities, and mega-corporations. Of course, I'm familiar with it, and I remember making a DNS server from junk broken Windows box to full function in 20 minutes.
I have been considering contributing to their package, I guess now I can.
Re:Distro forks (Score:1, Interesting)
Fedora was an attempt to bring OSS developers into the Redhat fold, though Redhat claims that it was to give back to the OSS community.
scared of Ubuntu? (Score:2, Interesting)
I've personally been all over the place with my choice of preferred distro. Ubuntu is the nicest desktop linux I've found.
Re:Finally, but timely? (Score:2, Interesting)
Yep. Exactly right.
The 3rd party repos that have popped up to fill the gaps have provided an invaluable service. The goal of Fedora Extras is similar -- but instead of providing individual repositories, Fedora Extras will provide a centralized repository that is more tightly integrated with Fedora Core. Ultimately, anyone who can build a package that conforms to the rules will be able to contribute to Fedora Extras.
And timely? Maybe not as timely as it could have been... but better late than never.
Re:FUDCon (Score:2, Interesting)
I dont know about that
- stuck a knife in the back of their loyal users, customers and flagship distribution that was a popular and well known standard. If nothing else they don't know anything about protecting their brand
-Started a subscription update service and then in less than a year(and the length of a subscription) stuck a knife in it too and screwed all the people who were paying them money for it.
- Started Fedora and tried to sucker a bunch of unpaid volunteers in to doing all their work for them while they kept all the control and power. Certainly a good way to improve your profitability if you can find enough unpaid and cluefull volunteers who are suckers enough to work on a project on which they have no say while you rake in the salary and the stock options.
- And of course with Enterprise Linux they converted Linux from being the low cost solution in to one that makes Windows, SCO and proprietary Unix look almost cheap
Already Happened (Score:3, Interesting)
Wrote up a short editorial over at PCBurn [pcburn.com] with links to the relevant distributions (or you could use Google
Re:Finally, but timely? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Even Linux companies (Score:3, Interesting)
If you want to run RHEL but not pay for support, run CentOS. Personally, I'd pay for support if it was reasonable.