[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Arthur Pemberton]

2008/10/10 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
> Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>> Itamar - IspBrasil wrote:
>>>
>>> any chance to increase the life of fedora releases ?
>>>
>>> or fedora will be only blending edge ?
>>>
>>> In my opinion fedora is losing space from centos and ubuntu
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> The brazilian government, one of the biggest Fedora Case of the world is
>>> changing from Fedora/ Red Hat to Ubuntu/Debian.
>>
>> The problem was at an initial point, when Fedora was considered "for
>> enthusiasts only". A lot of previous "RedHat Linux enthusiasts" just
>> switch to CentOS (and similar RHEL-based systems), no more using Fedora,
>> because "it is marked as a non-for-production system even by its creators".
>>
> The fact that they switched to CentOS is *good* for Fedora.  CentOS's
> goals are better oriented to the needs of someone that wants to deploy a
> system and run it for years.


They switched to Debian and Ubuntu. There is no evidence that they
considered Centos.


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