haydude

First the move to stop distributing the popular Red Hat distribution to
concentrate on an Enterprise version with ridicolously high prices.
Only to give Microsoft the base to support their campaign on total cost
of ownership.

Then the farce of a FEDORA 1 open release that hardly worked. And keep
disappointing to release 6!

What is fundamentally wrong with FEDORA?

1) The name. That STUPID name could not be a most unfortunate choice.
Red Hat should have invested something in marketing to get a better
brand name. Red Hat is a silly name too, but hey, at the time they did
not have the money for marketing. Now they do, and they came up with an
even STUPIDER "FEDORA".

2) The choice to produce a new release nearly twice a year. Nobody
wants to run an old product. It is best to maintain one release for
longer and build on its improvement than producing a new one frequently
that gets old quickly. That is a deterrent for anyone to produce any
value added software for either Fedora and Red Hat and for anyone else
to waste their time to install it.

3) That threatening nonsense license, daughter of some paranoid
american lawyer, in clear contraddiction with the principles of GPL.

4) The choice not to include open packages, or crippled versions of
them that have a controversial status on software patents that are
registered only in the US and not in the rest of the world, where
software patents are not enforceable (like in Europe). Software patents
are stupid in that they can stop or slow down progress.

5) The intricacy of piecemeal packages so tightly dependent between
each other, that prevents any upgrade to newer releases of any part of
it without replacing most of them. If this is what Red Hat Enterprise
is based on ... wheew.

Linux is getting buried under hundreds of distributions with tens of
releases all incompatible with each other.

I have always been a Linux advocate, however I wonder, what makes
Windoze great? What makes Windoze great are two very simple
principles:

1) Usability
2) Stability

Stability might look like a contraddiction for Windoze, but the real
stability of a product is the assurance that tomorrow I will be able to
keep doing the work that I used to do yesterday confident that if I
want to do something new, I will need only to add one more component
(package) to my existing platform (Operating System), and NOT to go
through a painful rebuild of my computer.

Sadly, Linux, Fetore (stink), Red Hat, are still far from being able to
support these two simple and foundamental principles.

HD

ivan marsh

Absolutely nothing.

I've been running mission crucial applications on it for years.

Stop spreading FUD.

matt giwer

I have been running it since Redhat 5.something and have no problems with it.
It is certainly more reliable the Windows. I have never felt the need to look
for another distribution.

What are you pushing instead?

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haydude

I am pushing for Linux and for Red Hat to get back on track. As it is,
I could not recommend it for enterprise solutions.

daniel ganek

I'm confused. You're bitching and moaning about Fedora and then
you say can't recommend RH for enterprise solutions. Fedora is
bleeding edge technology; no one in their right mind would use it for
enterprise solutions. RHEL is a good enterprise solution and is
basically free if you don't need support.

/dan