Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction
 

Forwarding the announcement as posted to several mailing-lists hosted by Red Hat:

Excellent, will sticky for a few!

http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/

Isn't this the RedHat 10 mentioned in an earlier post?

Yes. There won't be a Red Hat Linux 10.

Any word on whether or not using Fedora's apt-get repositories will be available, instead of up2date?

Short question, long answer. As a disclaimer, some of this is just my personal point of view.

Expect Red Hat Network to carry Fedora Core and Updates and probably also Fedora Extras, so you can still use up2date and get priority access as usual.

Expect up2date to also support apt/yum repositories in addition to RHN. The installer of Fedora Core Test release 0.94 contains a screen which reads that redhat-config-packages will have apt/yum and network access, too. The test release also contains Yum already, but not yet apt-rpm or Synaptic. They will likely be added in the future, either to Core or Extras.

I would not expect Red Hat to offer and maintain apt/yum repositories in addition to Red Hat Network. As part of the Fedora Project, however, I think the community is free to establish a network of apt/yum repositories which will be made the default in config files.

.....uhmm..... who knows what effect this is going to have on Corporate perceptions of Desktop Linux and the likelihood of buisnesses taking up Linux on the desktop.......... drat ! ........just as things were getting started...........

That target group is served with Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS and future products which are in the queue.

The fantasy is over?

No such thing as a free enterprise operating system?

*cry*

I wonder how this is going to affect the people who are currently using Red Hat? Will people stick with Red Hat / Fedora or switch to a different distro?

Just what I was thinking... Maybe people who don't like Fedora will switch to a new distro.

Kinda odd, but I never heard of Fedora until this happened. :D

Frobozz,

it seems as if you didn't understand what this thread is about. Hence your two-line comment make a strange reading.

misc,

Frobozz comment made sense to me. What I got out of it was. He never heard of Fedora before this merger was taking place. (I hadn't either). And now he was wondering if people will switch to a new distro.

That alone is somewhat poor input for a discussion, don't you think the same? [At the left of the screen in your profile I can read "Red Hat 9.1", a distribution that doesn't even exist.] I fail to read your mind. Would you mind expanding on any reasons why you would switch the distribution?

Would you change the distro when the company changed its name?

"Fedora" is just a new name.

The (small) "Fedora Linux" community project -- you would know that if you had visited their home page -- happened to provide add-on packages for Red Hat Linux before Red Hat's plans on opening up the distribution development went public.

If Frobozz had referred to changed service details such as support levels and errata support periods or any quotes from http://fedora.redhat.com, I would have understood that. But the name alone doesn't tell anything about the content of the distribution. Look, the first beta was still called Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 (Severn). The second, what I'm updating in the background, is the same plus many bug-fixes and updates, but is called Fedore Core 0.94 (Severn).

I'll have to change that under my name. I've heard several people call it that and that's the version my friend put on the cd's he burned. Don't worry, I'll fix it.

I didn't say I would switch. I asked a question. Kapeesh?

The problem as I see it is: Fedora is meant to be more unstalbe than the previous releases of Red Hat Linux. A lot of companies use Red Hat Linux as oppossed to Red Hat Advanced Server, etc. They can get good people to administer their machines without paying the extra money. I see it as a money move by red hat that has the potential of driving those customers to a different distro. Only the large companies may want to pay the extra price.

Mind you, I still think the Red Hat server line is still a good deal for large corporations. But is it really better than the Red Hat Linux line or Slackware or Debian? It all boils down to the people who are the administrator's