Re: Fedora - DELL ?

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 20:55 -0500, Paul Osunero wrote:
For those who are wondering where the survey is:

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/linux?s=corp


The discussion at the dell blog shows that people really want Ubuntu
first, Fedora second, and Suse third out of the big three. To be
honest, Ubuntu makes more sense because they'll have legal codecs from
Linspire's CNR and they have commercial support. Fedora lacks these
things right now...

Still... it would be nice if they added both Ubuntu and Fedora as an
option with "unsupported" next to whatever distribution they don't go
with.

Users care less about distros that don't work in the real world.
Because of the self-flagellating ideological crusade adopted by Fedora,
they are now second fiddle to Ubuntu. ESR has been telling them that
for many moons now.

The primary function of an operating system is to serve the user; thru
greater technical merit, and not to pick a religion for the user.
Whenever an operating system devolves from that former purpose, it
basically removes itself from the domain of the user. That's what's
happening to Fedora now, because of the Alan Cox's and the Greg KH's and
the Andrew Mortons of the world. The Ubuntu guys realize that
programmers have the right to license their code however they please,
and that it's not the purpose or stated goal of the OS to dictate code
licensing choice. The purpose of the OS is to run user programs, and
not to force use of it's developer's favorite licenses. Ideology is the
_user's_ domain, not the OS's. That's why Ubuntu will continue to clean
Fedora's clock.


LX
--

°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
A Kernel Of Socialism

greatunwashed: module license 'great_unwashed' taints kernel.
ich: no version for "unwashed_register_device" found: kernel tainted.
Symbol usb_register_driver is being used by a non-GPL module,
which will not be allowed in the future
Please see the file Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
in the kernel source tree for more details.
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°

--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Fedora - DELL ?
    ... > The discussion at the dell blog shows that people really want Ubuntu ... > first, Fedora second, and Suse third out of the big three. ... Whenever an operating system devolves from that former purpose, ... programmers have the right to license their code however they please, ...
    (Fedora)
  • So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
    ... Why I'm jumping ship to Ubuntu. ... Fedora box in my home. ... I prefer XFCE or similar lightweight desktops for these machines. ... While I am glad to see the Fedora live CDs, ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: ipw2200 on FC4 problems
    ... The licensing of the firmware prevents free distributions from doing this. ... AIUI, if Fedora were to include it, we could distribute it to you, but ... So if Ubuntu are distributing this on CD, ... license terms, or they have some special agreement with Intel. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
    ... However the precise nature of the difference between Fedora ... and Ubuntu in legal terms is not entirely clear to me. ... the user can install propietary codecs, and on both systems there are ...
    (Fedora)
  • RE: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
    ... I've been a Linux user since 1998, and also started with Red Hat. ... Fedora and Kubuntu exclusively. ... machines, my laptops, and student machines run Kubuntu. ... Why I'm jumping ship to Ubuntu. ...
    (Fedora)
Quantcast