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Paladin9:
could someone tell me what is going on with red hat? Why did they stop red hat? Is the fedora system sort of like red hat v10?

restin256:
Yes.

Red Hat stopped supporting their desktop software for their server software, they're going closed-source. Fedora is a project to steal coding from the linoox community and use it for their commercial success, but telling people it's a seperate project, or at least I suspect.

Fedora is cool, I installed it tonight and I'm still on it. I need to recompile the kernel, as the sound keeps going out, but otherwise it's respectable. And the fact that apt works with it, and it's the only distro I've tried that works with fluxbox, I'm keeping it for now.

worker201:
Errrrr...

I think of Fedora as the community Linux, which will be supported by the community.  Homebrewed patches and apps will get put in there by anyone who cares to contribute.  I don't think RedHat is going closed source, but they are probably going hi-price and hardcore.  Whatever.  It's an easy distro, and free.

Oh, Slackware + Fluxbox = hell yeah!

Refalm:
Download Fedora now:

ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/fedora/core/1/i386/iso/ (download the i386 ones, not the SRPM ones).

restin256:

quote:Originally posted by worker201:
I think of Fedora as the community Linux, which will be supported by the community.  Homebrewed patches and apps will get put in there by anyone who cares to contribute.  I don't think RedHat is going closed source, but they are probably going hi-price and hardcore.  Whatever.
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Fedora is described as an all-free OS of both programming from the Linux community and RedHat people. RedHat itself is no longer free, which is why redhat is gay. Fedora is |..| that close to being the biggest POS OS every.

 
quote:It's an easy distro, and free.
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You need a kernel upgrade, and THEN it's an easy distro.

 
quote:Originally posted by worker201:
Oh, Slackware + Fluxbox = hell yeah!
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Agreed.  :cool:

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