Fedora Questions

[wl7coe]

Been running redhat 7.2 since it came out. Was looking to upgrade to the latest redhat, went to their website and saw the new prices and went OUCH!, after surfing around for a bit I found the Fedora page. Has anyone upgraded from 7.2, 8 or rh9 to Fedora?

Do I understand this right, is Fedora just a continuation of RH 9?

( I do use Suse and slackware, just looking for Fedora info to those who would otherwise post on those distro's)
Thanks

 

[thedaver]

Fedora IS NOT Redhat 9.0+
The free RedHat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 series are all dead products - see RedHat for more details.

You are welcome to BUY their Enterprise products, or utilize the Fedora project's FREE product.

Fedora ( fedora.redhat.com ) is being positioned as an accelerated development platform by the RedHat developers who can play with new stuff and get you to test it for free. Then once you've stopped bitching about something not working, then it walks into the Enterprice product.

The product refresh cycle is to be several times a year for Fedora and once every year or so for Enterprise.

Cutting edge is not Enterprise's direction. Fedora's direction is really muddy, other than it being a playground.

MANY linux users have anaylized this picture and moved to Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, SuSe, or ( you favorite distro here).

I loved the RedHat linux line, but the whole affair doesn't feel right as the platform for which to operate my ISP's servers. I've enjoyed Debian, but it takes some getting used to - mostly for the better.





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[wl7coe]

Well on the desktop I used redhat I will mess using it. The install scripts made installs so sweet and never had any problems, everything always worked and I have installed alot of em. (Hardware is the key).
Redhat must have dropped us home users cause they were not making money off of us. For the record I bought every version from 4.2 to 7.2. So they got money from me.
I looked at the prices they are charging now, Bill Gates ought to follow that pricing scheme and triple his profits.
I cannot reccommend REDHAT to anyone now, not even as an enterprise solution, its a trust issue. (And what a confusing web site now)

Suse on the desk top is it now for me and that bites.
(With the right hardware it is a clean install even on a laptop)

Or I may download RH 9.0 for free and just use it till it is so far behind that it is useless.

 

[danielhozac]

Fedora has a lot more Debian'ish approach to packages. It has a stable repository, a testing repository and the rawhide repository (known to break things). Saying it's a playground for developers really isn't fair.

//Daniel

 

[thedaver]

Danielhozac,
You probably are right. In rereading my post - which I assume is refenced by your comment - I should not have disparaged Fedora by implying that Fedora is necessarily a poor or scary product because it is subject to development cycles.

However, from a systems management perspective, Fedora is going to be a much more rapid development cycle than Enterprise. And I believe it is accurate that the initial deployment of "new stuff" will hit Fedora before Enterprise.

That development approach has implications to folks managing their data centers and operations. Fedora is also going to use a vastly different core of applications than current RedHat users are accostumed to finding.



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[sleipnir214]

I don't think that Fedora is going to use core code that is so vastly different than RedHat X.Y. It's just that Fedora's mission is to release code more often -- they're looking for multiple releases per year.

RedHat (meaning the new official definition: the enterprise stuff) will be developed with the idea of slow releases of mature code in order to make the distribution as stable as possible.

Right now, I think I'll just keep an eye on the distribution and wait and see. I want to know how well they keep up with bugfixes and how well they support less-than-the-current releases.


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