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Who is Fedora for?Who is Fedora for?Posted Mar 11, 2010 16:20 UTC (Thu) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)In reply to: Who is Fedora for? by tux1968 Parent article: Who is Fedora for?
Huh? Your comment makes little sense. You say you like the Fedora goals and it is what attracted you to it. But then you say it became a little like Ubuntu which drove you away to what? Ubuntu? Riiiight... that makes sense, NOT. But then again, humans aren't always logical. :)
I can tell you that while Fedora has tried to make the distro easier to use for newbies they definitely have not changed the focus of Fedora strictly to newbies. They try to walk a tight rope of doing lots of different things all at the same time. That seems to be what interests the developers... and that is who you have to keep happy or the users don't even have a chance. Fedora tries to keep a balance between developer and user and I believe it has done a good job. Flames are pretty healthy as long as people don't decide to pack up their stuff and play in a different sandbox.
From my point of view, Fedora hasn't really changed their philosophy much at all. Yes they have increased their marketing and promotion efforts but those are not what is driving Fedora. I too am a long time Red Hat and Fedora user but I do not suffer from Ubuntu envy.
Canonical might be competition for Red Hat but Canonical has to prove they have a workable business plan and from what I've seen, I don't think Red Hat has much to worry about because they really aren't going after the same market segment. I'm glad Canonical is there to keep Red Hat on their toes though as Novell needs help.
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Who is Fedora for? Posted Mar 11, 2010 19:41 UTC (Thu) by tux1968 (guest, #58956) [Link]
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Huh? Your comment makes little sense. You say you like the Fedora goals and it is what attracted you to it. But then you say it became a little like Ubuntu which drove you away to what? Ubuntu? Riiiight... that makes sense, NOT. But then again, humans aren't always logical. :) [/quote]
Just because you couldn't understand the logic doesn't mean it is missing ;o) To spell it out in simple terms for you: as long as Fedora is going to attempt to be another Ubuntu, and do it badly, I might as well have the real thing. Fedora doesn't do what Ubuntu does very well, despite continuing decisions in that vein. The things that would keep me with Fedora and give up some of the conveniences and polish of Ubuntu, have been cast aside by Fedora in an effort to compete with Ubuntu. Which is sad to me.
Cheers.
Who is Fedora for? Posted Mar 11, 2010 20:06 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
What specific decisions in your opinion have continued in that vein? I
don't really see that despite being involved in the project ever since its inception. So share your perspectives.
Red Hat Linux and Fedora following that were pioneers of a time based
Who is Fedora for? Posted Mar 12, 2010 4:16 UTC (Fri) by wtogami (subscriber, #32325) [Link]
Huh? You give no examples of what Fedora is supposedly doing to be like Ubuntu. AFAIK that is not a goal of Fedora at all. Without specific examples you cannot be very convincing of any point.
Who is Fedora for? Posted Mar 18, 2010 8:31 UTC (Thu) by DYN_DaTa (guest, #34072) [Link]
"Fedora doesn't do what Ubuntu does very well"
You're right. And I'm ***extremly*** glad of it. One likes to take shorcuts and the other tries to innovate. One bring us future and the other bring us cheap goals.
Guess who is who? :).
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