On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:01 +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote: > Let's imagine a community of users, who need such a non-standard choices > in general. Could such a community be capable to provide their own Linux > distro, suitable for production environments? Seems no. It requires some > sponsor (or some commercial basis) for success. Debian does it without sponsors, heck they even almost voted to forbid sponsorship at least once. > Most cases the commerce in Linux is the support of users. And certainly > such a commerce "wants" the users to be as typical as possible. Hence it > seems not a good idea to allow them a lot of possible options, which > they could occasionally set and complicate the life of their supporting > engineer... Given Red Hat does not provide support for Fedora, you are completely off the mark here. These choice are made on technical grounds by Fedora developers and security conscious people. > Certainly having the ability of non-standard choice is the good idea, > but the market does not like it... :-/ It's not about Market or Red Hat, its about making a distribution that can actually be used without going back to Linux From scratch, where you have to build and configure each single piece of software on your own. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
