> This is sad. No more Redhat Linux, outside of the enterprise version, and > here is the first release of fedora getting poor reviews: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/12/2323256 > Where to turn? There are a lot of comments claiming that the author of the article lacks the ability or intelligence to give the review any credibility. The tasks she had difficulties with seem to have been simple ones, and this you take as evidence that the article is useless. Apart from the Linux hippie intellectual supremacist statements I would normally expect to come rolling in after any form of criticism of the OS, perhaps the point is exactly that she reviewer was struggling with simple things. Fedora targets the market of normal users, while RHEL moves on to capture the big bucks. That means fedora is the Linux that people who aren't whiz kids or back street geniuses with a fetish to tinker on arcane scripts and config files, are gonna use. Redhat has been doing a great job at nailing down the desktop market for the not-so-computer-wise, and the article points out quite clearly that this may have been progress now totally lost. I have not yet tried Fedora, so I don't rightfully know whether she has any significant points, but it is clear to me, that for an average user, things may be a bit problematic. I'm somewhat ashamed to see that the comments posted on this adopt the same approach that MS users do when trying to denounce articles, and the authors of articles, promoting or comparing something open source vs. windows. Instead of shouting "You don't know what you're talking about!", it would be nice to see points countered with intellectual arguments instead of child like-sulking. -- Herbert Michael Kunzmann Binary Chaos Magician http://www.dreamstroke.com
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