Star Reviews: Fedora 7
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Jun 2007 23:02 UTC
Fedora Core Some review of Fedora 7. First, eWeek concludes: "We were impressed to see how amenable to customization this popular Linux-based operating system has grown." Linux.com also reviews Fedora 7. "Fedora 7 was released last week, a little bit behind schedule, with a spate of new features, updates, and live CD installable "spins" of Fedora in KDE and GNOME flavors. I found a lot of good in this release, but a bug in the FireWire stack that attacked my external backup drive made this release just a little shy of perfect." Update: Two more Fedora articles, a review and a news article.
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RE: review is balanced and fair
by kaiwai on Thu 7th Jun 2007 04:39 UTC in reply to "review is balanced and fair"
kaiwai
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Sometimes I wonder who the Fedora distro is for. Is it a Red Hat test bed? Not really. Is it a newbie desktop linux. Nope. I like to use it since it is pliable in terms of hacking together different modules. If you want more reliable stability I would stick to centos, if you want an RPM based distro. If you like to tinker a little and want it all you might like Fedora 7.


You could ask that about OpenSuSE or Debian; who its for is up to the individual to decide. Its like "oooh, this is a server operating system" - there are no fixed roles, you can use any operating system for anything you want.

Those who run Fedora are the same as those who would run OpenSuSE; if people really needed to have ultra-stability, they would go out and use/purchase an 'enterprise' based distribution - but with that comes the issue of whether you want the latest software or whether you want stability; the most up to date the software, the greater the risk for bugs and compatibility issues.

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