Comments on: Red Hat publishes Fedora 9 preview

"Most critical release" of freely available Linux distribution is last public release before final version's launch in May.

[My-Self]

Just a toy ...

I mistakenly used Fedora on servers (back when this was a widely recommended distribution) and was left in the cold when the Fedora Legacy project collapsed. Declaring an operating system obsolete and not providing security fixes after such a short period of time is not a responsible behavior.

My servers now use Centos 5 and I'm seriously looking into Ubuntu server edition, with their 5 years long term support commitment.

[paulej]

Not a toy

Fedora is not a toy. I run different versions of it on various servers and I'm quite pleased with it. However, it is free software and I cannot expect long-term support from the open source community.

If you want a supported operating system to run a mission critical application, then you must go to a vendor (like Red Hat) to buy a supported OS.

Your need is not mine: I do not need support years after release. There are many like me, some of whom update their systems frequently and do not care about long-term support, and others who provide their own support and do not need to rely on third-party support organizations.

But, that does not make the system a toy. I've found Fedora to be a very good operating system-- it runs 24x7 on our servers providing a variety of services.

[pfrields]

Not Red Hat, the Fedora Project.

The Fedora Project releases the Fedora distribution, not Red Hat. Red Hat participates in the Fedora Project, but we also have many hundreds of volunteers who work on Fedora as well. For example, over 65% of our software package maintainers are volunteer contributors. Red Hat sponsors the work done by the Fedora Project, but we are a community made up of volunteers and Red Hat employees, with a shared mission of advancing free and open source software.

[thedreaming]

Why bother?

I don't hate fedora, I used to use them, but me and pretty much everyone else that was just playing around with linux switched to ubuntu and I haven't looked back since and why should I? Ubuntu is so easy to setup the way you like it and you don't have to be a linux expert to do it.