The Fedora Project Board met this week to discuss issues surrounding the upcoming release of Fedora 7. Though originally scheduled for release on April 26, that date has now been moved back to May 24, dashing the development team's plan to debut the final release at this year's Red Hat Summit. One thing that Summit attendees will see, though, is the artwork that has been selected as Fedora 7's new theme.
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Member since:2005-07-06
There is something wrong with a distribution that drops legacy support in favour of eye-candy.
Lack of man power. Maintaining a legacy distribution is much harder than you think especially when it comes to bandwith. Since there is another alternative like CentOS (a clone of RHEL based on Fedora itself), legacy is no longer useful. FYI, Debian dropped support of their Woody version.
There is something wrong with a distribution that loses a high profile user (yes, I mean ESR) then announces the following week which skin will paint their next release.
If you have analyzed the letter and read the fedora-devel-list, you will find out ESR shot himself in the foot and he was no man enough for asking help to fix his own mess. Same scenario can happen on any operating system, it happened to be Fedora which was already an easy target of criticism for opportunists. To quote a poster, Nobody cares about ESR so it is time to move on.
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2006-09-21
... to get new wallpaper, I'm going to flee. There is something wrong with a distribution that drops legacy support in favour of eye-candy. There is something wrong with a distribution that loses a high profile user (yes, I mean ESR) then announces the following week which skin will paint their next release.
Yes the balloons are beautiful, but I'd rather fetch the wallpaper myself and have support for my FC4 system. The install is only 2 or 3 years old after all.