Fedora more successful, developer-wise, than Ubuntu

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Dec 23, 2007 7:46 PM, William Cattey <wdc at mit.edu> wrote:
> I am concerned that Fedora and Red Hat are losing mindshare in a way
> that a few years down the line will "kill the seed corn."  There's no
> nice middle ground between Red Hat Enterprise with well established
> functionality, and Fedora with bleeding edge functionality.  Well
> there is
> but it's called Ubuntu.

Point to specific functionality... open functionality that Fedora
doesn't have that we should.
If you are talking about nvidia or ati proprietary drivers out of the
box.. then that's a non-starter.  What piece of open technology is
Fedora not providing that let's people
"working with the same stuff that the guy next door runs on the Mac or
under Window"

It's real easy to speak in generalities and yet not actually say
anything significant.

>
> For the people already committed to the development community, Fedora
> is perfect just as it is.
> But for people not sure whether they want to use Linux, or join the
> developer community, Ubuntu works, but Fedora has issues.

Every distribution has issues.   What in the Fedora Desktop LiveCD doesn't work?

>
> Perhaps those who feel as Mukul Dharwadkar and myself will find a way
> to provide a particular spin on Fedora that will be an intermediate
> stage between Fedora as it is now, and Enterprise such that the
> developer community will build from the Fedora code base, not the
> less interesting, but more usable Debian/Ubuntu code base.

Again isn't the Fedora Desktop Livecd exactly what you want?

-jef