On 10/29/18 8:31 PM, Richard England wrote:
On 10/29/18 6:30 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 04:26:46PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>> On 10/29/18 11:41 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:02:32 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users
>>> <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/29/18 8:12 AM, Eddie O'Connor wrote:
>>>>> I feel as though I've been kicked in the back of the neck.....by
>>>>> Bruce
>>>>> Lee! I don't presume to know the first thing about corporations,
>>>>> mergers, and long term financials,.... And while Red Hat was a
>>>>> corporation per se.....I've always loved Fedora for being
>>>>> different, for
>>>>> being the odd distro that was backed by a major corporation
>>>>> ....but was
>>>>> still able to support itself independently. Now? I'm just
"leery". I
>>>>> don't know what plans IBM has for their new found
"toy".....& I'd
>>>>> rather
>>>>> not be surprised as others have said. So the question is:
>>>>> Are there any .rpm-based distros that would make a good
>>>>> replacement for
>>>>> Fedora?....
>>>>>
>>>>> Heartbroken in the world of Open Source.
>>>>>
>>>>> EGO II
>>>> Wonderfully stated. The announcement took my breath away. I hope
>>>> Fedora gets spun off.
>>> Unlike the IBM of today, Redhat was not really your average
>>> capitalist enterprise so they supported Fedora. They had a long view
>>> which is not permitted by markets.....In any case, I doubt that
>>> Fedora or OSS is an example of any kind of capitalism. A good place
>>> to start looking for that would be Somalia.
>>
>> Uhhhh. Red Hat uses Fedora as a testing ground for RHEL. RHEL is
>> basically a defunct, bug frozen version of Fedora. Red Hat gets
>> a ton of benefit from Fedora.
>>
>> The big question is how will IBM look at it. RHEL is pretty much
>> unusable for newer software as RHEL is so bug riddled and out of
>> date.
> Don't know why you think RHEL is bug riddled. it's stable and
> will run for years.
>
> Some of us (many businesses) don't want a new version of Linux every six
> months, they want systems that will be stable and will run for years
> with nothing more than the occasional yum update and more occasional
> reboot. People with many computers can't spend time reinstalling and
> re-configuring all of them once or twice every year. And I don't want
> to do that with my home systems either. I want something I can use
> for 2 or 3 years, at least, before enduring the reinstall pain again.
>
> They may use what appears to be an old kernel, but RH does backports
> of many modern features and bug fixes.
>
+1
Why are you using Fedora?