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Kent Pirkle kpirkle at kphome.net
Wed Nov 5 18:59:25 EST 2003


That's why its called Fedora "Core". The idea is that additional stuff
will be added by the community outside of "Core".

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 11:17, Cory T. Echols wrote:
> On 11/05, Chris Ricker wrote:
> > I'm a little confused as to why everything thinks Red Hat is not marketing 
> > to home users. Red Hat has two product lines, RH Enterprise Linux (for, 
> > well, enterprise users) and Fedora (for home, developers, hobbiests, etc.).
> 
> Fair enough.  Red Hat does deserve more credit than I implied for
> remaining hobbiest/tinkerer-friendly.  I do wonder how effective Fedora
> will be at serving the whims of the tinkerer while staying true to its
> vision of a testbed for RHEL.
> 
> For example, Debian currently has an impressive suite of Common Lisp and
> OCaml development tools.  Obscure stuff, to be sure.  Will Fedora be as
> receptive to people who want to package this type of stuff?  Personally,
> I can see it going either way.
> 
> I'm optimistic about Fedora, but the plethora of smaller non-commercial
> distributions that are beginning to get more recognition has me very
> enthused as well.



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