RH recommends using Windows?

nosp nosp at xades.com
Tue Nov 4 17:22:59 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 17:06, Jason Montleon wrote:
[...]
> And it's true.  You aren't gonna get iTunes or Napster 2.0 for Linux anytime
> soon, you won't see Half Life 2, Lock On: Modern Air Combat, or Everquest II
> released at the same time as the Windows versions, and let's face it; maybe
> not for you, or me, or most technically inclined people, but it is harder to
> set up than a Mac and therefore too difficult for many.  But you can get
> you're productivity suite, browser, email client, etc.  So for many
> businesses it will be plenty suitable.

Exactly -- it will probably help productivity since 1) it's more stable;
2) generally more secure; and 3) harder for the average user to do
something to hose their machine.


> This does leave the question of who the hell is supposed to use Fedora...  I
> guess people like me

Yup, sounds like it.

> My only hope is that RedHat doesn't make Fedora into the
> bastard child not worthy of tinkering on, let alone running my PoS personal
> server on, because then I will to a large degree fall out of touch, and then
> I cannot recommend it on personal experience anymore.  But I am optimistic.

Redhat seems to want to use Fedora as a feeder for its Enterprise
product line, so I think their official position certainly justifies
your optimism.






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