Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Aug 2006 21:52 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
"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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2005-07-06
Fedora is a general purpose system. It is already used as server (Wikipedia, SourceForge) for the Halo movie http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/05/10/10/0058251.shtml, workstation (Pixar, IBM for their CELL development) and desktop (take a look to fedoraforum.org.
It is used for the development of RHEL, the difference is the certification, RHN and its larger enterprise aim. However, Fedora has its own technologies that is not included on RHEL i.e yum and Extras repository. I don't see the problem for Fedora being a testbed for RHEL as the skill from the former can be transfered to the latter for people who are interested to work in larger businesses that use Red Hat product. For me, it is a big bonus.
Also remember that Fedora is the base of the OLPC project software. It actually causes a surprise to some posters.
Overall, Fedora is argually the most versatile system I ever used by far because of it is ability to adapt to the user need. As we speak, one of news feature will allow users to use third party repository for the installation using Anaconda. The point is arguing about the target audience is a waste of time.