Red Hat Promises A More Vibrant Fedora

loki99 points out a CNET story about the direction Red Hat's development has taken (and changes in the wind), writing "Michael Tiemann, vice president of Red Hat, admits that after exclusively concentrating on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in recent years, they left those 'early adopters' behind. 'It insulted some of our best supporters. But worse, we lost our opportunity to do customer-driven innovation.' Tiemann said." The recent Boston FUDcon (mentioned in the linked article) is one example of how the company wants to revitalize non-corporate interest.

FUD?

[fm6]

Not the most carefully chosen acronym!

VIbrant Fedora?

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, welcome our bright magenta overlords of haberdashery.

More packages. Yay.

[Anonymous Coward]

Tiemann hopes the current 1,600 or so different software packages in Fedora will grow as high as 3,000 or 4,000 this way.

In other news, Fedora will be the first distro to ship on 50 CDs, containing mostly half assed apps.

VIbrant Fedora, with a capital "VI" ??

[Doppler00]

I hope this doesn't mean it will be based entirely on the user interface of vi.

FUDCon

[Anonymous Coward]

..With special guest Maureen O'Gara, Laura Didio and Rob Enderle

Re:FUD?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not the most carefully chosen acronym!

Neither is fm6, genius.

Re:VIbrant Fedora, with a capital "VI" ??

[dubbreak]

What, you would prefer EMACSparkling Fedora?

Re:Problem with Fedora and Linux in General

[Anonymous Coward]

yeah, because php is really secure [phpbb.com]

Re:Sexist!

[YOU LIKEWISE FAIL IT]

Carmen Sandiego more than makes up for any 'general population' shortfall.

Re:What is vibrant about it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Or you could let them use Wine, save on therapy, and you'd just have to worry about hangovers the next morning.

Re:Questions for Red Hat customers...

[xenocide2]

I've been happier then hell with it

Well, gee. Can't come up with a better desciption than "Hey, its better than living in a lake of fire with sharp sticks shoved up ones anus.!" ;-)

Re:What is vibrant about it?

[cowbutt]

With RH9, at least I didn't have to risk a system overhaul every couple of months. Updates came out regularly, and I could upgrade RPMs as needed or required.

Updates for FC1 are still available from Fedora Legacy [fedoralegacy.org]. Alternatively, consider the Free RHEL rebuilds such as Centos or Whitebox, which promise to have updates available for as long as RHEL does (2010, as it stands at the moment).

Re:Really?

[mikeage]

USB device support is nearly flawless. I plugged in my brand new Epson Stylus R300 and just started printing.

This sounds like a bug. It's not supposed to print until you choose the "Print" option. If it's printed unsolicited material, you might want to check your configuration...