I haven't sent this yet as I'd rather get other people's thoughts too, and I'm sure some are able to be far more accurate than I am! best wishes Jon ------------------------ I just read this article and was disappointed to discover that you seem to have severely mis-represented the Fedora Project. If I can take a few moments of your time, I'd like to advise you of the specific points in the story where you've been mistaken, and also to invite you to start a dialogue with the Fedora Project by contacting us on press AT fedoraproject DOT org to avoid making the same in the future. "...Red Hat has a preview of an upcoming Fedora Development release, Version 9..." Firstly, Fedora is not a Red Hat product but a community maintained distribution of which the majority of packages (over 60%) are maintained by non-Red Hat employees. Secondly, Fedora is not a development release in anyway, but a stable system that showcases the latest free and open source software. It's true to say, on the other hand, that Fedora is an innovative distribution that leads the way in the adoption and development of a lot of new technologies, feeding back all improvements and changes we make up-stream for the benefit of all. "Fedora 8 is the currently available development release, which got underway in April 2007 and which was launched last November. A lot of the code that was hammered out in that Fedora 8 development release is winding its way toward Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2" Again, any final release of Fedora such as version 8 is not a development release. A lot of the code from that release is making it's way into RHEL 5.2, but you know what else, it's making it's way into all other GNU/Linux distributions too including Ubuntu, Debian and openSUSE. This is because we push our developments to the upstream communities, which other distributions then base their own work around. "Remember, the Fedora 9 preview is just that--a preview--and is not even to be considered beta code yet and hence is not appropriate for anything close to production environments." I feel like I'm repeating myself, but Fedora 9 will not be a development release, and you're mis-representing the facts by suggesting that the preview release is not even to be considered beta software. The preview release is very close to what the final release will be, and is where a huge number of bugs will be squashed to make sure that the final release is on a par in terms of stability as well as features with any other distribution. -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
