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The end of the Fedora ... film at 11The end of the Fedora ... film at 11Posted Apr 5, 2006 18:51 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)In reply to: The end of the Fedora Foundation by philips Parent article: The end of the Fedora Foundation
I keep hearing about how people are moving away from Fedora left and right, but the Fedora downloads have been growing from the mirrors I look after. I am not saying Ubuntu etc arent growing also, but I havent seen this big drop-off of downloads.
What I do see is that people going to the LUGS arent running it anymore.. but I dont see a lot of the people who are downloading/using it at LUG meetings either. The LUGs seem to be the same people with a couple of new faces every now and then but not a large growth in their numbers.
Note: While I worked at Red Hat, I do not have a staked interest if no-one else in the world used Fedora than me.
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The end of the Fedora ... film at 11 Posted Apr 5, 2006 19:08 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] This anectdote displays one flaw, one best demonstrated by just about every hardware and gaming website. If you believe what you read there, you'd think that everyone has a pair of $500 graphics cards in a PC with a $1000 overclocked, watercooled processor in a case filled with midgets at a rave.
Which is clearly ludicrous.
LUGs tend to represent the fanatical extremes just as those review sites do.
So I'll say this: Don't discount the mainstream. That's where the *vast* majority of users are. Where you used to have to go to a LUG to get Linux installed successfully, now it rarely takes more than a couple of mouse clicks. You don't need to be a fanatic now, as it by and large JustWorks(tm).
And that's all most people care about.
The end of the Fedora ... film at 11 Posted Apr 5, 2006 19:36 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] pizza: I think I was subtly agreeing with you. I took what you stated as givens (LUGs being populated by the most 'devoted' Linux users)
The end of the Fedora ... film at 11 Posted Apr 6, 2006 7:51 UTC (Thu) by philips (guest, #937) [Link] I did not want to sound like "End of Fedora".
I was talking about people who still remember what RHL was and what Fedora was. (Like I do)
Every *new* user Fedora project gets has no knowledge what RHL was and what Fedora was. All they know is FC aka "Fedora Core".
Try to read the letter from the POV of new user: it make no sence.
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