When you see what Knoppix does in terms of hardware detection there’s no excuse for any distros to have sub-par hardware detection. Stuff that has been working for a long time in Mandrake does not work in Fedora Core at all… An example is hardware detection. I find all this a bit cheeky and a slight misuse(?) of the community because I’m not sure the goal is to produce a really good Fedora Core.įor that reason I much prefer Mandrake (although their relentless releases should slow down, 9.2 works really well for me at home and work, 10.0 is a disaster in terms of stability with the 2.6.x kernel) or SuSE (just ordered 9.1 pro). Having said that I can understand why from a Redhat perspective because Fedora Core is a test bed for their enterprise linux version. I have the impression that Fedora Core is completely driven by Redhat feature-wise and the community does not have much say in the process.
“ Anyone know where Michael K Johnson ended up after he left the helm of Fedora?” So Fedora being controlled by RH isn’t a bug - it’s a feature! Debian is there for pure community development, but Fedora gives us a lot of RH’s latest work (and they contribute a huge amount of code under the GPL) with a small amount of community involvement, but RH QA, testing and polish. Sure, Debian’s an ultra-reliable distro, and deserves respect, but the gigantic community and zillions of package maintainers slows progress down immensely. The QA is very good, and the releases are all pretty strong. RH employs some supremely talented coders and software engineers. Those who really wanted a pure community-driven distro had already switched to Debian years ago. Initially, RH really pushed the whole community-involvement aspect and found that their users just wanted the same old RH goodness. “ The “community” project is completely controlled by RH, there is near ZERO communication from the leadership, and ZERO transparency in the decision making process.”
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