:Fedora 12 – A Visually-Pleasing, Highly-Configurable Linux Distro You Might Want To Try
Fedora 12 – A Visually-Pleasing, Highly-Configurable Linux Distro You Might Want To Try Dec 16, 2009, 20 :33 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4388 reads) (Other stories by Susan Linton)
"Much of the company and community work that goes into Fedora will find its way into Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the commercial Linux version used by governments and businesses around the world. You might compare the relationship between Red Hat and Fedora to Novell and openSUSE.
"For this reason, Fedora is a well respected and highly popular distribution, even if their development may skew towards the enterprise. Thus Fedora might be considered geared for the more experienced and power user. While many aspects of this American-based operating system are quite user-friendly, other areas mOne area in which Fedora excels is the implementation of the latest technology in Linux and Open Source software. In fact, many characterize Fedora as cutting-edge. This policy sometimes yields unexpected or undesired results, but the many users who prefer to live on the edge receive a new version once or sometimes twice within a calendar year, although several recent releases have slipped passed their scheduled release date due to issues in the system. While some become impatient waiting for releases, Fedora is one of the few major distributions to delay releases if some major bug is found, which speaks to their level of commitment to excellence as opposed to marketing.ight require some prior Linux knowledge to fully appreciate."
