Re: new to list, first post

[John5342 <john5342 googlemail com>]

2009/7/30 <wdepli mikrotec com>
> Is Fedora really gaining that much ground with every bi-yearly release to
> justify that pace?

Regular release are pretty much a requirement for providing large
numbers or large scale updates. Providing some of these large scale
updates just arent practical without breaking an existing release and
waiting a year or two to launch major updates kind of goes against the
spirit of "leading edge" that Fedora is well known for.

> After all Red Hat is not a desktop but a server, right?

Fedora is not Red Hat. Red Hat releases are based heavily on Fedora
and a lot of Fedoras infrastructure resources come from Red Hat. tThat
is where the link ends.

> And Chrome could kill current races to find a desktop to compete with Windows.

That just aint gonna happen.

> So why not concentrate on what Red Hat/Fedora does best?

But regular leading edge releases of open source Linux _is_ what
Fedora does best.

> Let Ubuntu grind out Gnome and KDE enhancements.

Open Source is about choice. Sure Ubuntu can grind those things out. I
on the other hand think Fedora does it better.

> How often does Solaris release desktop distros?

Solaris has very different aims.

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