Fedora Project Turns 10

darthcamaro writes "It was ten years ago this past Sunday September 22nd, that the Red Hat sponsored Fedora project was born. The first Fedora release didn't come until six weeks later in November of 2003. Over the last 10 years the project has transformed itself from being entirely controlled by Red Hat to being a true community effort. In a video interview, the current Fedora Project Leader, Robyn Bergeron talks about the past and the future of Fedora. 'We need to think about how we're actually making the sausage,' Bergeron said. 'I think we can try and abstract and automate the things we have to do a lot, so our really awesome people's brains can be applied to solving problems that aren't yet automate-able.'"

Re:Fedora community effort

[Anonymous Coward]

Yea- I agree. I can't imagine touching Fedora, CentOS, or RHEL. I congratulate Redhat on there contributions and will stop there. When Debian came into being they fixed the RPM problem. When Linspire came into being they fixed the ease of use problem, when Ubuntu became popular they fixed the integration and support issues, and now we are left with a fairly stable although tad buggy set of distribution derived from Ubuntu with bad to acceptable set of desktops. If I could combine what we have today KDE 3.x alongside decent easy file / application search I'd be in heaven. KDE 3.x has some nice features related to Konqueror. You could type alt+f2 and then enter gg: for google search or dict: to look up a word. Very convenient. Amongst other abbreviations. I'd probably ditch Konqueror today for a webkit based browser or firefox. The main issue I see today is the lack of support for free software. I think Trisquel and the FSF have it right. We need to say 'no' to the inundation of non-free software. It's hindering support and turning GNU/Linux into an even worse version of Microsoft Windows. Fortunately you can at least work around it in the hardware arena by buying only free software friendly hardware (ThinkPenguin makes it easy). The problem then only lies with stupid plug-ins like Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, and a few other things.

Fedora + PlanetCCRMA = audio production OS

[ffflala]

Installing the PlanetCCRMA http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ [stanford.edu] collection of packages on Fedora has been my preferred open source audio production installation for quite some time. There isn't really all that much in the way of audio production distros, I guess because a real-time kernel is necessary for audio multitracking, which presents a lot of problem for most other use cases.

This has been one area where Fedora has consistently stood out among its peers. For a short time, Ubuntu Studio was almost the perfect fit for this niche, but the complete incorporation of an early, incomplete, and buggy PulseAudio killed that chance.

I think that dates to around Fedora 7 or 8. Since then, I have yet to come across a cleaner & more efficient combination for Linux based multitrack audio production.

Re:Ah, Fedora

[blackiner]

I pretty much have had the opposite experience... I decided to try fedora out on my main machine after 19 came out and I was pretty impressed. It never fails to boot, no app crashes, everything is stable and fast. Upgrades have been installing just fine too, I was getting tired of the hastle of maintaining Gentoo, and Ubuntu has given me kernel oopses stalling the entire boot process since it is so slow to upgrade the kernel.

Ah, actually I just remembered I DID have a failed boot, last week too. That was when fedora upgraded to 3.11... basically, the nvidia driver is incompatible at the moment. Any chance you are using the blob drivers? And yeah I guess this makes my previous statements seem a little silly... (I do kind of consider it an nvidia problem though, as you can't get the blob driver from official fedora repos).

Re:Not controlled by Red Hat?

[rubycodez]

we're not talking about red hat linux, we're talking about fedora. see, that's the problem. red hat gave all of us who introduced linux into the enterprise the finger and said we couldn't use red hat at home or on a trial machine at work. they locked down their update repository to only paid subscribed machines, quite unlike the other leading distros and not in the spirit of open source. After all, money should be made on *support*, not access to code. then, to add insult to injury, red hat made fedora a separate distro so people could be guinea pigs for trail balloons and random brain farts of red hat.

so people like me, who administer hundreds of servers, dumped red hat. I've actively been phasing out redhat on hundreds of servers in favor of two other distributions at my employer who has over a million users. At my last employer, I lead the same effort, with clients who have billion dollar plus IT budgets. I'd like to introduce you, red hat, to a little known Dr. Dolittle character, the fuck me?-fuck you!