Fedora In the News
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1].
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Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
Which Linux Distro Leads the Pack? (linuxinsider.com)
Robert Jensen forwarded[1] a posting including Fedora 16 Alpha KDE and GNOME 3 screenshots:
"...how do Linux bloggers have fun? That's right, by engaging in a little high-spirited debate -- not of some weighty, industry-changing subject this time, though, but of a matter very close to all of our hearts. It's time, in other words, to ask the question once again: Which distro is best?
It is with deepest gratitude to the ever-awesome geeks over at TuxRadar that Linux Girl calls your attention, dear readers, to a wonderfully thorough side-by-side comparison they recently performed on six of today's most popular Linux distributions: Fedora, Mint, Arch, Ubuntu, Debian and OpenSUSE.
Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza took issue with TuxRadar's inclusion of Fedora.
"Putting Fedora at the top of a 'best distributions' list is like putting a prototype car at the top of a list of cars to buy this year," Espinoza told Linux Girl.
"Fedora is the alpha test version for RHEL," he explained. "They break things there first. You'd have to be a nut to run it on a production system (though apparently, many people do) because the entire purpose of Fedora is to permit Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) to try new things and break stuff."
Discussion on the Fedora marketing list continued, wondering when the mis-perception that Fedora is primarily a development path for Red Hat Enterprise Linux would end[2][3]
The full post is available[4].
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-September/014027.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-September/014028.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-September/014029.html
- ↑ http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Which-Linux-Distro-Leads-the-Pack-73240.html