Quoting "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > * 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 -- > 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. > -- > Eric S. Raymond > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- Luya Tshimbalanga Fedora Project contributor http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/LuyaTshimbalanga -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
