On 10/29/18 10:19 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
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
Hi Paul,
Back when I was using RHEL and Clones, I use to say "What goes
on in Fedora, eventually winds up in RHEL."
:-)
-T