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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Member since:2006-03-22
"Those who run Fedora are the same as those who would run OpenSuSE"
I don't know if I agree with that. Fedora is not recommended for production use. Suse has more of a stable reputation. You are right that everyone use whatever they want but it pays to consider what that distro was intended for carefully.
Just to be clear, one guy is talking about OpenSUSE, and you are talking about SuSE, bearing in mind, I don't think those are the same thingm or is it a RedHat, CentOS relationship?
Edited 2007-06-07 07:07
Member since:2005-07-06
Using the last guys logic (whom you replied to), no one should use OpenSuSE or Fedora because they're buggy riddled POS. Fedora is Red Hats community based distribution for their enterprise release, and OpenSuSE is the basis for Novells Desktop product (SLED SP1 for instance is based on OpenSuSE 10.1 plus patches).
Also, 'It is not recommended for production use' - who doesn't recommend it? some nameless person with a blog located at some place in the middle of no where? how do you define production? someone who needs 24/7 uptime and support, or merely someone who wants a distro for his or her desktop use?
Why do people equate 'community based distributions' as nothing more than 'experimental versions'? sure, these companies make up the majority of contributors. If people choose not to muck in and actually contribute, who sit outside these establishment, then why blame Red Hat or Novell? All these companies offer is a distribution based on the community version with long term support both software, telephone and consultancy. What the heck is wrong with that?
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2005-11-12
Those who run Fedora are the same as those who would run OpenSuSE
I don't know if I agree with that. Fedora is not recommended for production use. Suse has more of a stable reputation. You are right that everyone use whatever they want but it pays to consider what that distro was intended for carefully.