[LUGSB] Re: Novell+IBM buys SUSE

[Mark Drago]

> As for Fedora, it's little more than a twice-a-year release of what used
> to be Rawhide. Certainly unacceptable to anyone except perhaps college
> students who enjoy re-installing their OS bi-monthly (and who probably got
> addicted to this while running Windows9x 8-)) after some botched partial
> upgrade.

I guess I fall into this category.  I like to watch the bleeding edge of
software development.  It's for this reason that I was running debian
unstable for a while.  It is surprisingly stable despite its name, but
just not as nice and refined as red hat for a desktop distribution. 
Basically, I need all of my peripherals to work.  That's the bottom
line.  It always took me way too long to get sound working under
debian.  I'm hoping that fedora will give me a chance to always be
running the most cutting edge software, but still keep the niceties that
come from a friendly distribution like Red Hat.

> Rabid gamers are the other category of masochists who enjoy this 
> kind of thing and do it regularly, but then Linux isn't exactly a gamer's 
> OS.

I wouldn't consider it masochism so much as curiosity.  I have to know
what has been put into the most recent versions of software just because
I feel like I'm missing out otherwise.  I couldn't wait 12-18 months to
try out something new.  Admittedly, I don't have any real systems to
keep track of besides my desktop and my laptop.  So, my needs are very
different from those of a sys admin.

> I'm just wondering what's stopping someone from freely distributing the 
> RHEL distro and updates. It's all GPL so licensing is not an issue -- RH 
> even make all the SRPMS's available through FTP to anyone. You can't call 
> the distro "Red Hat" because of their trademark, but you can certainly 
> call it "Green LeafBlower"... :-)

You can be sure that if there was a distribution called 'Green
LeafBlower', I'd be running it on everything that I could strap down. 
:o)

> Ion

--Mark.