[TriLUG] Fedora, RHEL, and drivers

[Roy Vestal]

Sound's like I'll just reinstall Solaris on everything.  ;)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Daniels" <bitmage at bellsouth.net>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Fedora, RHEL, and drivers


> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:00:50AM -0500, Kevin Sonney wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:00:48 -0500
> > Message-ID: <m3oevqvrsf.fsf at moltress.darkcanvas.com>
> >
> > [Full disclosure: I work at Red Hat as a Sales engineer.]
> >
> >
> > But I really don't expect hardware vendors to "support" support Fedora
> > the way they support RHEL. Sure, $HARDWARE drivers might be out there,
but
> > I don't expect them to be as supported as similar drivers for RHEL.
>
> Ugh.  I hope you're wrong on this one.  Otherwise I get two choices:
>
> Fedora, the newest software and apps with out-of-date drivers for
hardware.
> RHEL, the newest drivers for hardware with out-of-date apps.
>
> I don't see how any of this is going to help Linux.  Like it or not, Red
> Hat is _the_ Linux to many, and provided a reasonably stable target.  Now
a
> developer like vmware must either maintain multiple versions of their app
> for Fedora and RHEL, or give up a chunk of userbase by only supporting
one.
>
> All of this just further confuses potential Linux adoptees.  Nevermind the
> head of RH saying they should be running Windows anyway.  :-/
>
> --Brian
>
>
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