[svlug] Red Hat and the ISVs?

[John McDonnell]

On the 10th day of November, M. Drew Streib said to me:

> Not to start a religious war... but years of experience in a community 
> built distribution, 

This is all good for people starting afresh, but for those with Red Hat 
experience and a truck load of Red Hat systems, it's not such a selling 
point.


> excellent packaging standards for contributed material, and religiously
> maintained security updates.

Again, Joe Schmoe has several Red Hat systems and considerable experience 
with RPM, why should he throw all that out and learn the intricacies of 
Debian? 

> A community-built distribution is more than the sum of a few contributed
> packages.

Agreed. Still, I'd give Fedora a chance before dismissing it wholesale.

johnmc.
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