Jef is so right here, it makes me weep.
Fedora is the right thing to do.
Why Fedora? Because it's got the best out-of-box security model available
in a free distro. Execshield. Buffer validation. SELinux. It's an OS
that doesn't become a spambot in 15 minutes.
Why Fedora? Because it's all open, and it'll stay that way. Open
protocols for music and video. Ogg is open *and* it's better, so we're
gonna use it. We put our money where our mouth is.
Why Fedora? Because it works. It's a great desktop and it's a great
server. It's got everything that any Linux user needs.
Why Fedora? Because it's built using the right model. It's cutting-edge
without sacrificing usefulness. Not only is it a great desktop and a
great server, it's also a great R&D platform for the Linux community as a
whole. And the cutting-edge today becomes the supported RHEL stability of
tomorrow.
Why Fedora? Because it's secure, because it's open, because it works, and
because it's innovative.
Why Fedora? Because it's the *right thing to do*.
Hell yeah.
--g
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > SELinux and our release philosophy are actually probably good examples
> > of why Fedora isn't currently an OS for world domination - implementing
> > SELinux is the right thing to do, but it currently complicates running
> > the system.
>
> There it is... there's the crux of the matter.
> Fedora: The right thing to do.
> Not the easy thing... not the quick thing...the right thing. The right
> thing for future of the existing community, as well as the future of
> open source computing in a broader context.
> Short term release schedules with long term focus.
>
> Doesn't that sum what everyone is trying to express in terms of a
> development philosophy and focus actually is? Not what we'd like it to
> be. All the efforts to shoehorn a definition of the Fedora experience
> that tries to detail what Fedora is "now" feels so very badly out of
> place when the development is clearly focused on getting things right
> long term. The payoff simply isnt istant gratification. Its not about
> the best desktop or whatever "now" its about progress toward the
> ideal.
>
> jef"Fedora: Contradictions made manifest"spaleta
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