Red Hat Spins Off Fedora Project

Infoweek ^ | June 3, 2005 | Paula Rooney

[stainlessbanner]

I hope they keep Tux Racer

[KoRn]

I love Tux Racer. The kids do too!

[goodnesswins]

LOL.....I thought the RED Hat Ladies were starting a men's division called "Fedora"

[ikka]

Solaris 10 I have found to be better overall as an OS than Red Hat. However Linux does have a place in the market.

[dixiechick2000]

"I thought the RED Hat Ladies were starting a men's division called "Fedora"


You aren't alone in that thought. ;o)


"conference in New Orleans"


That is the ONLY thing Southern in this article, sb. ;o)

[stainlessbanner]

Good Evening DC2K - I'm posting articles about the red hat ladies in the South!

[Texas Mom]

LOL.....I thought the RED Hat Ladies were starting a men's division called "Fedora"

ROTFLOL You are NOT alone. I was thinking the Red Hatters where up to no good. ;D

[dixiechick2000]

And, a very Good Evening to you!

All Southern wimmen love articles about The Red Hat Ladies.
You are, most definitely, a Southern Gentleman for posting them. ;o)

[ShadowAce]

[Golden Eagle]

I thought they already did this once, when they dropped support for "Red Hat Linux" and launched "Fedora".

[N3WBI3]

They are absolutly *KILLING* me here! I thought ending the RH line at nine and creating Fedora in the first place was annoying (I just started to get into it), now its more likely that Fedora and Redhat will drift apart.

For now Ill give them some benefit of the doubt because I was wrong on the whole RH9 -> FC1 thing being bad..

[N3WBI3]

I was never too keen on Solaris's package management. But if you're not too keen on x86 I would probably take it over RedHat. After the nightmare they put me through with Solaris7 for x86 It will be a few years till I give them another shot at an intel server..

[bmwcyle]

http://fedora.redhat.com/

[Golden Eagle]

I don't blame you. Here's what we use, a solid product from a solid company that doesn't jerk its customers around. And yes you can download it for free, if that's high on your list.

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/index.jsp

[N3WBI3]

Sort of, the RH9 -> Fedora change was basically a branding change to differentiate between a free offering and their enterprise stuff. They still determined what went into FC# so it ended up a pretty good snapshot of a RH release.

For example the tested the 2.6 Kernel, SELinux, and other things in Fedora before putting them in RHEL. its not exact but it went something like this.

FC1 -> RHEL2.1, FC2 -> RHEL3 -> FC3 RHEL4

Now it seems they are cutting the strings a bit and letting the Fedora crew do its own thing..

[N3WBI3]

A company that does not jerk people around? have you forgot the old 'hey were going to get rid of x86 solaris', oh wait I guess were going to keep it afterall?

[Golden Eagle]

When the x86 version was originally launched it was never claimed to be enterprise ready, more like a Fedora beta test. We didn't even fool with it till version 9.

[Doohickey]

Interesting. Looks like Red Hat is getting itself out of the free software "business". Not much profit to made in giving stuff away. Go figure.

[N3WBI3]

I was not trying to use the x86 Solaris desktop *why would I when at the time SPARC owned x86*, I was using it desktop. It was so aweful they tried to eol it after 8..