Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

I have been a Red Hat hater since the entire we no longer support anything "free" thing. That has been much debated, not free as in beer, they are still doing it only through Fedora, and so on.

Well I was pretty pissed at first because I did not believe that Fedora would actually get much attention and because I had been a loyal PAYING Red Hat customer for years. I wanted a 40-50 dollar rev that was supported by Red Hat, supported at least in testing and updates and so on, and frankly I still do, but sans that Fedora is pretty damn impressive.

I installed Core 2 a few times over the weekend upgrading some older Red Hat 7.3 machines (upgrading to me, I did not "upgrade" install, installed fresh). I must say that its very Red Hat like (of course) and it installed without a hitch on various machines. It worked exactly as it was supposed to and in included the 2.6 kernel (something I have been wanting to step up to for several reasons, and have had issues with on a REd hat 7x or even 9 machine). It supported most devices just fine (EXCEPTION Firewire, big pain in the ass, the hotplug and all, doesnt quite work, even with a custom kernel with said support). Performance thus far has been very good, I dont have any formal benchmarks but it does *feel* faster.

So all that said, my thanks and props to Red Hat and EVERYONE whom has participated in the Fedora thing, its a great example of what open source can be, and a great product (IMHO, thus far).

And note, if you really want to get all fancy with your Fedora, try the PPC flavor. Thats right, there is a a ppc port and it supposedly works on macs. (Note that the boot.iso the article mentions does not exist, as one of the commenters to that article points out).   http://fedora.redhat.com/