Posted by Dotan Cohen on 02/10/05 04:40

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:42:10 -0600, Greg Donald <destiney@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:01:18 +0200, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I very much disagree. I am writing this on my Fedora Core 3 box and am
> > very happy with it's 'bloat'. As a new convert form windows I am kinda
> > used to everything being there at my fingertips. And in Fedora,
> > everything is, except mp3 support which I added easily with synaptic
> > (the apt gui). I know that I will outgrow this distro, and follow this
> > thread because I am looking for in which direction to grow. But I am
> > very glad that I found Fedora because SUSE, slack, and a few others
> > were way too over my head to get started. I almost gave up.
>
> You realize Fedora is RedHat's test distro, right? It's where they
> test new stuff for their commercial offerings. In other words Fedora
> is forever in 'testing'. There will never be a final 'stable'
> release. You'll have to buy a copy of RedHat for that. As "a new
> convert form windows" I thought you might want to know.
>
> Join you local Linux user's group. Go to an install-fest. Grow.
>
>
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I dont exacly agree with the statement:
> You realize Fedora is RedHat's test distro, right?

I quote from fedora.redhat.com:
"The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to
build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from
free software"

Now, you are correct insofar as "It is also a proving ground for new
technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products" (as
quoted from the same page), however it appears to me that the focus is
on creating a complete, general purpse operating system exclusively
from free software. The fact that there are some bleeding-edge
developments makes it no different from most other distros. In fact,
as far I as I understand, being a 'newbie-distro' it should be rather
stable. As far as my experience with it, it is extremly stable- more
so than the XP that it replaced (that might not be saying much,
though...).


> Join you local Linux user's group.
I think I might just join me local Linux user's group.


Dotan Cohen
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