Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Nov 2007 17:35 UTC, submitted by anyweb
Fedora 8 has been released. It sports a new look and feel, a codec installation program, the first signs of the GNOME online desktop, various security improvements, support for Compiz and Compiz-Fusion, Java support via Iced-Tea, and much more. Get it from the download page. Update: A couple of articles about the release: 1, 2, 3. Update II: One more: 4. 
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The thing that keeps me from looking at fedora again (I was once a dedicated user) is the fact that other distro's have said they will ALWAYS be free
So has Fedora. Refer
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives
Fedora believes in the statement "once free, always free" .
RHEL is not Fedora. It is a derivative distribution like OLPC and others are.
Edited 2007-11-10 01:39
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2006-02-11
The thing that keeps me from looking at fedora again (I was once a dedicated user) is the fact that other distro's have said they will ALWAYS be free. The server versions of the software will be the same as the desktop versions. Never will they ask for money for the linux software itself. It's ingrained into the distro and every release that follows. In my books, that's huge.
I know that if I support (for example haha) Ubuntu, they will support me. RedHat doesn't have the same lofty mission statement.
I've found in the past that Fedora was WAY too buggy on laptops and I didn't really know/understand the direction. Plus, YUM really sucked!
So for now, for the foreseeable future, I'm with Ubuntu.