OSNews > Thread > "RE[5]: review is balanced and fair" by B. Janssen

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Jun 2007 23:02 UTC

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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RE[5]: review is balanced and fair

by B. Janssen on Thu 7th Jun 2007 09:15 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: review is balanced and fair"

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kaiwai: 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?

Nothing. Taking this "community based" equals "experimental" to the extreme you could say that Debian or Slackware are "experimental" and I think not many things are further from the truth.

Fedora 7 is an impressive release, not impressive enough to replace Debian as my main GNU, but I'd still say it is the best out-of-the-box GNU/Linux distribution for the desktop right now.

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