Fedora 17 Alpha released

Posted Feb 28, 2012 16:08 UTC (Tue) by JEFFREY (guest, #79095)
Parent article: Fedora 17 Alpha released

*sigh*

These release notes embody the reason why we (Linux evangelists) are constantly struggling to convince businesses that Linux is a "professional" quality system.

Fedora 17 Alpha released

Posted Feb 28, 2012 16:17 UTC (Tue) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

I'd rather have entertaining release announcements than having businesses use a Fedora Alpha as "professional" quality system.

Fedora 17 Alpha released

Posted Feb 28, 2012 16:25 UTC (Tue) by flammon (guest, #807) [Link]

After working for a conservative corporation, I've realized that conservative professionalism won't make much of a difference. If the company is that conservative, Linux isn't even on the radar. If they're less conservative, they're already running Linux. Besides, these notes will mostly be seen by developers so no harm done and at least someone's having fun.

Fedora 17 Alpha released

Posted Feb 28, 2012 17:27 UTC (Tue) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

If people are running Fedora on production systems and don't have enough of a clue to look past the 'beefy' then they have more problems then just being 'conservative'.

One thing Linux evangelists need to be aware of is that not ever Linux distribution is appropriate for everybody and that giving bad/incorrect/invalid advice because they are not aware of their clients needs is far worse then not evangelizing at all.

Fedora 17 Alpha released

Posted Feb 28, 2012 18:18 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (guest, #51588) [Link]

Do you present Fedora as a "professional system"? Thats what RHEL (and clones) is for.

Fedora 17 Alpha released

Posted Feb 28, 2012 18:23 UTC (Tue) by geofft (subscriber, #59789) [Link]

I haven't had any trouble convincing anyone of that, and it's quite obvious to both my current and previous workplaces that Linux was the right choice for just about everything and we shouldn't be running servers on, say, Solaris, or in many cases NT. Who are you evangelizing, and how, and what are they using instead?

Fedora 17 Alpha released

Posted Feb 28, 2012 18:49 UTC (Tue) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link]

It's an alpha release announcement, do you expect a marketing team to draft and approve a call for alpha testers?

Plus it's fun.

Fedora 17 Alpha released

Posted Feb 29, 2012 8:48 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> These release notes embody the reason why we (Linux evangelists) are constantly struggling to convince businesses that Linux is a "professional" quality system.

This is not even wrong. Linux is not a system. Fedora, Redhat, Android, etc. are operating systems with brand recognition and widely different quality expectations.

If some businesses are not clued enough to make that kind of difference then you should probably stop wasting your time with them, they'll soon become irrelevant anyway. Open source really does not need any "desperate evangelism" any more. http://www.h-online.com/open/features/We-won-and-we-didn-...

BTW, I like Fedora for workstations but I would not recommend it for a server. Not because it's not professional but because of the feature/stability trade-off.

Fedora 17 Alpha released

Posted Mar 1, 2012 5:35 UTC (Thu) by Rudd-O (guest, #61155) [Link] (1 responses)

Ah, Jesus, SHUT UP. Go hate somewhere else. The whole Beefy Miracle thing is probably the funniest and most community-endearing thing that Fedora has had in a long time. And I LOVE it.

Fedora 17 Alpha released

Posted Mar 6, 2012 15:51 UTC (Tue) by lsatenstein (guest, #34741) [Link]

Fedora is a community and a private project. RedHat needs Fedora as a testbed for future RH Linux enhancements. How can RH test that a release is bug free?

Fedora developers (paid and volunteer), work their best to distribute bug-free code. But a few hundred developers cannot test a few thousand packages, and that is why there is alpha, beta, Release candidates and release versions.

My experience with Fedora has always been positive. It works, it is secure, it is fast, and it is reliable. Other distributions stay 6 months or so behind, to let leading distributions take the risk for the new features. I always do what I can do to further Linux development.