Quoting "Eric S. Raymond" <esr(a)thyrsus.com>:
* Persistent failure to maintain key repositories in a sane,
consistent state from which upgrades might actually be possible.
Core and Extras merged on future Fedora 7 so there is only one official Fedora
repository.
* Effectively abandoning the struggle for desktop market share.
* Failure to address the problem of proprietary multimedia formats with
any attitude other than blank denial.
Sorry Eric. It seems you are willing to compromise Fedora philosophies on what
it is not: a distribution with default installed closed sources . Since the
installation of Fedora can be customized with the ability to add an external
repository, the point is completely irrelevant.
I have watched Ubuntu rise to these challenges as Fedora fell away
from them. Canonical's recent deal with Linspire, which will give
Linux users legal access to WMF and other key proprietary codecs, is
precisely the sort of thing Red-Hat/Fedora could and should have taken
the lead in. Not having done so bespeaks a failure of vision which I
now believe will condemn Fedora to a shrinking niche in the future.
I think you threw away the FOSS philosophies that Fedora applied for a benefit
of patented codecs and popularity. IMHO, Linspire/Canonical means Canonical is
seeking a way to earn moneys with the inclusion of patented codecs on their
free distribution. Have you eared the term "victim of its own success"? There
will be a price to pay.
This afternoon, I installed Edgy Eft on my main development machine
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from one CD, not five. In less than three hours' work I was able to
recreate the key features of my day-to-day toolkit. The
after-installation mass upgrade to current packages, always a
frightening prospect under Fedora, went off without a hitch.
You should know you can use a boot disk to do a network install a system. Five
CD is aiming for people who don't have broadband connection which is still the
case on many countries.
I'm not expecting Ubuntu to be perfect, but I am now certain it
will
be enough better to compensate me for the fact that I need to learn
a new set of administration tools.
Fedora, you had every advantage, and you had my loyalty, and you blew it.
And that is a damn, dirty shame.
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