Re: fedora LTS , why not?

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:20:42 +0100
Adel ESSAFI <adelessafi gmail com> wrote:

> Well,
> I see that many of you point me to centOs. The idea is interresting.
> However, why centOs is not as known as ubuntu. The main advantage in ubunti
> (in my point of view) is LTS and codecs!  Why centOS is not a commercial
> success?

I wasn't that Ubuntu was either..

CentOS isn't trying to be a commercial success. It's trying to be a
community distribution. To be a commercial success you need business
support services, training and all the other stuff - at which point you
are looking at things like Red Hat Enterprise Linux.