[TriLUG] Fedora, RHEL, and drivers

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 09:42, Brian Daniels wrote:
> 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 Fedora, the newest software and apps with out-of-date drivers for hardware.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 RHEL, the newest drivers for hardware with out-of-date apps.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.
> 

But this has been true since RHEL came out (which was with 2.1,
correct?).  RHEL 2.1 and Red Hat Linux 7.3/8.0/9 were still separate
products requiring a different driver version most likely.  I wouldn't
call the 6-month release cycle of RHL a "reasonably stable" target,
especially when there were no "point" releases for 8.0 or 9.

I think it's amazing that there has been so much FUD surrounding Red Hat
over the past few days, when this new direction was originally announced
FOUR months ago (in July, under the name "Red Hat Linux Project" which
was later changed to Fedora).  People are acting like it's a big
surprise -- it's not.

--Jeremy

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