Star Red Hat Linux Project Renamed 'Fedora Linux'
Linked by Adam S on Mon 22nd Sep 2003 18:28 UTC, submitted by Robert Renling
Fedora Core "Red Hat and Fedora Linux are pleased to announce an alignment of their mutually complementary core proficiencies leveraging them synergistically in the creation of the Fedora Project, a paradigm shift for Linux technology development and rolling early deployment models." Read more at Fedora Linux's site.
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Elver
by pros-n-cons on Mon 22nd Sep 2003 18:40 UTC

Could someone that's used Redhat for over a year and likes it tell me what they find so good about it? In my opinion, that's the most nerve wrecking distro ever.

Things just 'work' more on RH then on slackware, SuSe, etc.
not saying out of the box it works better, they are all tested well that way. But when I'm hunting down a program on the net its more then likely been tested on RH. If that application has a problem, somewhere on google I'll see people posting questions/anwsers on it. Most binary software
is made sure it works with RH. Documentation alot of times has "if you're using redhat you do blah blah blah"

In short its used alot meaning more complete bug testing help resources, etc. I was tired of hunting down installation problems when using slackware. since apparently i'm the only one on the planet using slackware who didn't know how to install a certain tarball with dynamic/static libs and correct prefix set.

I also like the artwork (rawhide ones are nice), kernel patchs and a few employees i think are some of the best in the business.

sounds like a commercial, I'm sorry but most ppl will find they're valid reasons.