[Techtalk] Redhat vs. Fedora -- why I switched away
EevaJärvinen
eeva.jarvinen1 at luukku.com
Tue Nov 4 23:00:11 EST 2003
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:23:28PM -0500, Brenda Bell wrote:
> I remember this being a recent topic of discussion on this list and thought
> you might be interested in the interpretation posted on another list I
> participate in. I'm posting the unedited text here with the original
> poster's permission:
>
(snip away quite a lot)
> FreeBSD has dome similar to the implementation that
> Red Hat is attempting to do for years. They have
> FreeBSD -Current for people that want the latest
> stable packages. This is equivalent to Fedora. They
> have FreeBSD -Stable for the people that want the
> stable version. This is the equivalent to Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux. The main difference is that Red Hat
> is now charging for their stable branch.
>
> People really need to read what is REALLY going on
> before screaming that the sky is falling."
The sky is not falling. RH just isn't going to support Fedora like
they did RHL. I liked the backported patches, but RHEL (i.e. stable)
is too expensive. Had I wanted totally cutting-edge there's always
Debian unstable, Gentoo or something else. RHL didn't need much
configuring to keep it up-to-date, and the service they offered (RHN)
for USD60/year was good enough. And the major versions of packages
didn't change every month or so. I don't need the very latest; I was
happy. Now I'm running SuSE, which did need its own tweaking to get
it to work nicely. YaST2 does the updating now, and I don't have to
think about it very much at all. Also, software major releases do not
change, just like RH. No need to keep my brains so very up-to-date: I
don't have the time or the inclination.
I guess the clamor was coming from two sources: people like me who
can't get the service they got for a fair price, and from the people
who didn't want to pay but wanted some sort of stability without very
much knowledge.
Fedora seems like most other community-supported distros: I'm sorry
but I like a bit of corporate backing in my distro, especially when it
comes to packaging and package selections, and I'm ready to pay for it
(yes, I bought the box). I'm not competent enough to use
community-supported distros.
Eeva
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