"Is Fedora for its users, or is Fedora for Red Hat? That is, is Fedora a distribution that people should run and to which people should contribute, or is it really, as detractors have often claimed, simply a playground for new ideas on their way to Red Hat Enterprise Linux?"
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Member since:2006-03-22
My history has been some thing along the lines as follows...
Played with RH8.
Used RH9 -> FC5.
Appart from FC2, I found each next release to be an incremental improvement in stability and functionality (I'm not going to talk about performance, because every thing would be 100% subjective, and I have nothing to back any thing up).
FC2, was to be blunt terrible. But considering the others have been improvements, then whether or not this is a test bed for Redhat, I dont really care. It works.
Why choose Fedora over any of the others that could very well be equally stable/functional or MORE so? Simple, any thing you familiarise within Fedora, your more than likely to meet in Redhat at some point in time, and as I would always choose redhat on the servers, for me it makes it a no brainer.
But, that's not for every body.
Member since:
2005-06-29
The original announcement labelled it as being a testbed for RedHat with community involvement.
Although, the last release did seem to be usable. As was the second, to a lesser extent.