Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Jan 2007 21:58 UTC
Volunteers are calling it quits on a project called Fedora Legacy to provide long-term support for Red Hat's hobbyist-oriented Fedora version of Linux. "The Fedora Legacy project is in the process of shutting down," said project organizers Jesse Keating and David Eisenstein in a Fedora Legacy mailing list posting Friday. The organizers didn't provide a specific reason for the decision, but a lack of contributions from outside programmers contributed, Keating said in a separate mailing list posting.
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2006-10-24
RedHat did a very good job in chasing away the majority of opensource advocates from the Fedora distribution. Sure there are many Fedora users (newbies and corporations), but those are the wrong type of people.
While it's true that Red Hat did alienate some people, the primary reason why the Legacy project died is that very few users cared about it. While Fedora really is a great distribution and has a large active community, it is crafted to be most attractive to people who want bleeding edge free software. That target audience is very likely to upgrade to the latest release rather than depend on legacy support. Don't think anyone will shed a tear that the Legacy group recognized this and shut down.
Edited 2007-01-03 00:36