Video: The history of Fedora
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You’ve seen him here before, but it’s been a while since he popped in for a visit. You can enjoy his earlier work here, here, here or here. (Or check out his entire RHM collection). Who is that masked man? It’s the Fedora Project’s Greg DeKoenigsberg. And who better to talk about this history of the Fedora than someone who has been involved nearly every step of the way…
September 17th, 2008 at 2:28 am
Hi! Fedora is a great project.Thank you!
September 17th, 2008 at 9:44 am
[...] Video: The history of Fedora You’ve seen him here before, but it’s been a while since he popped in for a visit. You can enjoy his earlier work here, here, here or here. (Or check out his entire RHM collection). Who is that masked man? It’s the Fedora Project’s Greg DeKoenigsberg. And who better to talk about this history of the Fedora than someone who has been involved nearly every step of the way… [...]
September 17th, 2008 at 10:55 am
What was Fewdora to me ? The best Linux distro to use on anything.
What is Fedora to me now ? A rocket equipped with some not enough researched alien technology. It promises a lot, it drags you in, just to find out that you have a lot, and I mean A LOT of chances to wake up blown out in pieces, flying in the sky with nothing but the steer in your hands. The rocket was good, liable, solid. The alien technology, well, like any alien technology, extremely advanced. But this combo makes no use to the common terrestrial, nor to the enthusiastic astronaut. One question leads me to the conclusion: tell me, FEDORA, when will I be allowed to TRUST you again ?
September 17th, 2008 at 11:55 am
“One question leads me to the conclusion: tell me, FEDORA, when will I be allowed to TRUST you again ?”
When you stop hallucinating about aliens?
September 17th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Fedora doesn’t really care about the desktop. That’s why Ubuntu is the choice there. Just take fonts for example. They are terrible in Fedora 9. Start caring about Desktop polish & user experience Fedora!
September 17th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
“Just take fonts for example. They are terrible in Fedora 9. Start caring about Desktop polish & user experience Fedora!”
Are you serious? Fonts look 10x better under Fedora in my opinion. Font’s under ubuntu always feel like they just lack the pop that they have under Fedora. But that’s just my opinion.
September 17th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
“Fedora doesn’t really care about the desktop. That’s why Ubuntu is the choice there.”
Omg…who let the Ubuntu fan boys in here?
Please qualify that statement, if you would care to make a sensible point. You mean to tell me you’ve decided that instead of changing your fonts based on personal preference, you’ve decided to hate on the distro? Wow dude, just wow.
Fedora has yet to let me down, I’ve been with the disto since FC1, Red Hat Linux previous to that. I use it for anything you can think of including hard core gaming. So if 10+ years of solid Linux distro development with track record of excellence isn’t gaining trust, then my friends, good luck to you.
Keep up the good work Fedora Project!
September 18th, 2008 at 2:47 am
I use both Fedora and Ubuntu. I use Ubuntu for my non-techie friends and family. It was built on debian which has a focus on a stable desktop product with the home user in mind. Canoical’s recent interest in severs is just that, a recent interest that is a branch from their primary focus.
Fedora however was built from the ground up to be bleeding edge but stable enough. They are going out into the edge world, if you aren’t edgie then find a chillier distro, there are plenty of them. I, for one, appreciate the fantastic work of the Fedora team, their fearlessness will help us forge the path to the future. Ubuntu will pave it. If I’m bushwhackin’ alone, it’s cool; if i’ve got the wife and kids, i stay mostly on the path. I need both of them.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I think Fedora fits a niche perfectly. For production machines at my company we have standardized on RHEL. My production desktop is Centos5.2. At home, my workstations are running a mix of Fedora and CentOS.
This is not to say that Fedora does not mean “business”. Pieces like the Fedora Directory Server are killer apps for many Unix shops that still, alas, never quite embraced centralized authentication because of the costs or difficulties involved. Yes, there was OpenLDAP, and it’s not difficult to use, but the admin interface in the new DS is so easy that it’s a no-brainer sell.
You can’t have it both ways though. I enjoy playing with new features but have been guilty of making my test/play machines into main workstations. So I sometimes wish there was an 18 month release cycle (or easier updates from major release to major release), but that’s not impossible if I also want to play with the new toys.
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:15 am
Just keep up the excellent work and above that THANK YOU Fedora
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:16 am
@LAS
> Fedora doesn’t really care about the desktop. That’s why Ubuntu is
> the choice there. Just take fonts for example. They are terrible in
> Fedora 9. Start caring about Desktop polish & user experience Fedora!
I think it’s exactly the opposite. Fedora now cares too much about the so-called “desktop user experience”.
We are not “desktop users” the Ubuntu way. We are volunteer testers. Fedora is meant to be tinkered by millions of us and I for one enjoys it. That’s the experience.
November 19th, 2008 at 8:18 am
I have assigned as a Fedora ambassador. First I used Xandros,and then moved to Debian and later to Ubuntu, to end up with Fedora. I believe that the Canonical Ubuntu community has got to much attention lately. The system isn’t as good as it’s attention. Deb packages are easy to download, but hard to handle when they are installed. I had some crashes with these packages. With Fedora it’s the other way around, and soon to be easier than ever with the RPM Fusion project.
I really like the Red Hat – Fedora constellation. The business model is much more trustworthy than the Canonical – Ubuntu – Debian one. A lot of people don’t understand that it’s a tension between Debian and Ubuntu. And it’s known that Canonical is a small contributor of code to the kernel. Red Hat is one of the largest contributors, if not the largest one. I like that.
But most of all I like the honesty from Red Hat according the relation to Fedora. The signal is crystal clear, it can’t be a good Fedora OS, without a Red Hat, the commercial company backing it up.
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