[Gllug] Long term Opensuse (forked: reputation in l-t)

[Stephen Nelson-Smith]

Apolgies - I somehow managed to hit send within seconds of htting reply.
>> wasn't there an idealistic/flame-war about a major change in
>> policy-direction at Red Hat a number of years ago, which led to todays
>> situation of a paid and supported RHEL (distro, desktop, and configured
>> servers...), CentOS (community or commercial), and Fedora (desktop and
>> server)? How concerned are we/should we be today, about such a
>> reputation as RedHat may have gained 'then'? Has the Linux/FOSS
>> community grown, evolved, and enjoyed benefit as a result?

Yes.  Redhat created the concept of 'Enterprise Linux' and have done
spectacularly well commercially, and advanced the acceptability of
Linux as a serious, professional, mainstream, supported operating
system.

The community has benefited from Redhat's success too - just look at
how many Red Hat employees contribute to the kernel and other major
projects.

Fedora has also largely been a success - bringing exciting and
innovative ideas to the desktop quickly and reliably, and enabling the
best of these features to trickle down into the mainstream.

S.
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Stephen Nelson-Smith
Technical Director
Atalanta Systems Ltd
www.atalanta-systems.com
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