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Who is Fedora for?

Who is Fedora for?

Posted Mar 11, 2010 19:41 UTC (Thu) by tux1968 (guest, #58956)
In reply to: Who is Fedora for? by dowdle
Parent article: Who is Fedora for?

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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. :)
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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.


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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
release schedule and has strongly followed a free and open source
philosophy, done extensive amount of work upstream on everything from the
kernel and Xorg to NetworkManager, PackageKit, Plymouth and so on which has
been adopted everywhere else. There has always been fundamental
differences in approaches and live everything else, we have all learned
from each other.

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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