On 10/29/2018 09:14 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 10/29/18 8:31 PM, Richard England wrote:
> On 10/29/18 6:30 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 04:26:46PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>>> On 10/29/18 11:41 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:02:32 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users
>>>> <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 10/29/18 8:12 AM, Eddie O'Connor wrote:
>>>>>> I feel as though I've been kicked in the back of the
neck.....by
>>>>>> Bruce
>>>>>> Lee! I don't presume to know the first thing about
corporations,
>>>>>> mergers, and long term financials,.... And while Red Hat was a
>>>>>> corporation per se.....I've always loved Fedora for being
>>>>>> different, for
>>>>>> being the odd distro that was backed by a major corporation
>>>>>> ....but was
>>>>>> still able to support itself independently. Now? I'm just
>>>>>> "leery". I
>>>>>> don't know what plans IBM has for their new found
"toy".....&
>>>>>> I'd rather
>>>>>> not be surprised as others have said. So the question is:
>>>>>> Are there any .rpm-based distros that would make a good
>>>>>> replacement for
>>>>>> Fedora?....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Heartbroken in the world of Open Source.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> EGO II
>>>>> Wonderfully stated. The announcement took my breath away. I hope
>>>>> Fedora gets spun off.
>>>> Unlike the IBM of today, Redhat was not really your average
>>>> capitalist enterprise so they supported Fedora. They had a long
>>>> view which is not permitted by markets.....In any case, I doubt
>>>> that Fedora or OSS is an example of any kind of capitalism. A good
>>>> place to start looking for that would be Somalia.
>>>
>>> Uhhhh. Red Hat uses Fedora as a testing ground for RHEL. RHEL is
>>> basically a defunct, bug frozen version of Fedora. Red Hat gets
>>> a ton of benefit from Fedora.
>>>
>>> The big question is how will IBM look at it. RHEL is pretty much
>>> unusable for newer software as RHEL is so bug riddled and out of
>>> date.
>> Don't know why you think RHEL is bug riddled. it's stable and
>> will run for years.
>>
>> Some of us (many businesses) don't want a new version of Linux every
>> six
>> months, they want systems that will be stable and will run for years
>> with nothing more than the occasional yum update and more occasional
>> reboot. People with many computers can't spend time reinstalling and
>> re-configuring all of them once or twice every year. And I don't want
>> to do that with my home systems either. I want something I can use
>> for 2 or 3 years, at least, before enduring the reinstall pain again.
>>
>> They may use what appears to be an old kernel, but RH does backports
>> of many modern features and bug fixes.
>>
> +1
Why are you using Fedora?
ToddAndMargo:
Using/watching what Fedora is doing is a good way to prepare for what
might be coming in RHEL/Centos
Paul