--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9
To: olivares14031(a)yahoo.com
Cc: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
<fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 10:21 AM
Antonio Olivares wrote:
>
>>> Which is better Ford or Chevy? Wait
there's also
>> Dodge, Toyota, ..., great to have choices. Linux
is like
>> this also. I happen to agree with Mikkel on this
one :)
>>
>> While having choices is nice, if you are going to
make the
>> inevitable internet car analogy, if one of the
companies
>> (Linux distros in general) only has about 1% of
the total
>> market to begin with, would you still think it was
a good
>> idea to fragment that into a bazillion models that
can't
>> be supported with interchangeable parts? You
aren't
>> talking Ford and Chevy here - it's more like
DeLorian
>> and Tesla.
>
> Never had heard of Delorian or Tesla.
That was the point of using them as examples. They tried
(and arguably succeeded) to build something new, different,
and extreme, but it didn't work as a business. The
Delorian is best known as the car in the "Back to the
Future"movies. Tesla is building electric sports cars
and hasn't quite failed yet but is consolidating and
shut down their Detroit location.
> Do they have 1% of the automobile industry. I have
heard of Saturn, Hyundai, others not mentioned.
The Ford Edsel model might be a good match to what fedora
does. Have you heard of that one? It stuck all the new
technology available in 1957 into one car. Engineering-wise
it was not bad at all, but it was such a flop in acceptance
that the name became a joke.
Except for rawhide, Fedora does not stick all the new(latest) technology into the release.
Take for instance kernel 2.6.27.X, it is still with
[olivares@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64
OpenOffice is still at 2.4.X currently updated to 2.4.2 since it was released by Sun, the
most current being 3.0 which lives on rawhide :)
There have been a series of mails directed here, that where are the new packages for
Fedora, and they might come in soon to a mirror near you :)
I have 2.6.27, but compiled from
kernel.org because Fedora is taking time and care to push
the newest 2.6.27.4 or later kernel to work but it is definitely not ready yet, otherwise
many would be running it now.
I had never heard of it :) I have checked wikipedia for it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel
But I prefer to ask a friend, who was an engineer for Ford, for 20+ years. He can tell me
about it if he can remember back then. He liked the 57 Mercury and I don't know which
other cars. I can ask him if he remembers the Edsel :)
-- Les Mikesell
lesmikesell(a)gmail.com
Regards,
Antonio