Fedora Project as learning medium for experts survey

[thefinn]

Without a doubt. The opensource ideal behind the GNU license is still 
without boundary or limitation as far as learning and developing systems 
and networks is concerned. The easy installation and ability of the user 
to learn and develop from that foundation been since the major source of 
interactivity people have had with linux since I started using it back 
in 1994-5.

While other operating systems can be said to be System V compatible - 
which linux isn't - they tend also to differ in many major ways (from 
each other) which creates a problem of interoperability for developers 
and traditionalist users alike.

I think fedora and not only fedora - but the fedora repositories offer a 
complete way in which to use the platform in any capability - 
development, workstation use, or system servers without having to worry 
as much about underlying security and upgrade issues as have had to in 
the past. While fedora isn't responsible for much of this, I think the 
distribution has started at a time where this is the main benefit of 
using linux as a platform for any of these tasks over other operating 
systems which are still a huge manual workload just to keep things running.

I would suggest however that System V compliance would make any version 
of linux a good choice for anyone anywhere - if it were possible with 
the GNU framework - I'm no expert on the law involved.

TheFinn.


Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:

>Experienced users and developpers,
>
>	I'm writing an essay for the University of Paris V / Ergonomics
>Lab concerning the learning mediums for future experts.  The aim of this
>email is to collect testimonies.
>
>	Please answer as soon as possible (immediately), the dead-line
>for this survey is Monday 30 August 2004 included (UTC).  I think the
>best is to reply this email to me only, not the mailing-list and wait
>for the result (the essay).  Your answers may or may not be directly
>quoted in the essay, and will be kept anonymous unless prior
>authorization.
>
>Question
>--------
>	Do you consider the Fedora Project as an efficient way for
>future experts to learn to use software, maintain networks and to
>program ? And why ?
>
>
>Thanks
>
>Pierre-Philipp
>
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