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On 2006-05-23, William Poaster spake thusly:
> On Tue, 23 May 2006 14:55:07 +0000, M wrote:
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> [NOTE: www.jlaforums.com steals usenet newsgroup posts, & misleads the public
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> This post was originally posted in a USENET newsgroup.
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Fedora users might find this new article intersting...
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Part 1: Primary objectives
>>> | The first step in understanding the differences is to recognize that
>>> | while they share many goals, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora also
>>> | have a number of different objectives, as well as different audiences.
>>> | There is no one-size-fits-all distribution. We focus on combining
>>> | forces where we can and optimize accordingly when priorities differ.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/019may06/features/fedora_rhel_1/
>>
>> <quote>
>> Fedora's target audience includes developers, testers, writers and early
>> adopters.
>> </quote>
>>
>> <quote>
>> Rapid innovation vs. stability. Fedora is fast moving. It is for people
>> who always want the latest and greatest. The Fedora stream is more
>> revolutionary: Old versions of packages may be quickly cast aside for new
>> ones. Fedora is highly receptive to experimentation. </quote>
>>
>> Some conformation of what a lot of people suspected. especially the fast
>> moving & early adopters bit. :-)
>
> As I've said on a few occasions & also in other groups, Fedora is
> generally regarded as a development distro.
And yet, I am not a developer, and I *love* Fedora. So much so, that I haven't
upgraded to version 5. I have core 3, and there simply is no need for an upgrade.
Fedora is that good. The only thing I have found to be a weakness is YUM, with
it's tendency to tell you that application "foo" is not available. "nothing
to do". I haven't configured it with alternate repository sites,
and I probably won't have this problem once I do.
I tried many, many distros, in the early days of Linux when redhat was the
desktop powerhitter, and you got it free from the jacket of a magazine, all
the way to about two years ago, when I decided to give Fedora a spin. It was,
bar none, the easiest, most intuitive, functional distro I have ever had the
pleasure of installing and using. During install, It recognised and automatically
set up all my hardware. Generic DVD/CD burner, dual Netgear 10/100 ethernet cards,
onboard sound card (ESS Solo 1938 which no other distro had ever done without
some persuasion) as well as the Yamaha DS-XG YMF744 sound card.
I can't say enough good things about it, and encourage anyone with an interest
in installing Linux, to give it a try.
Best Regards,
Mathew
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