hi,

Fedora is a community driven project. Hence support is also community driven

Red hat does support Fedora.

You need to spend sometime reading up the mailing lists and fedoraforum.org along with planet.fedoraproject.org and the rest.

Here : archives :

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listi...bassadors-list

You can navigate to all the other lists from there.

Please refrain from publishing your opinions without having proper sources and knowledge on the concerned subject.

regards,

Hum... CentOS is Red Hat sources recompiled and repackaged. I fail to see how it can have "better hardware support".

Also, OpenSolaris is Sun's idea of trying to get Solaris (their flagship system) some of the development breadth of Linux, that hardly counts as a comparable situation than Fedora vs Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Yes, Fedora isn't perfect. Yes, it has its rough edges. But it packages in a (mostly well working) collection whatever is the newest and greatest in open source, so if you are curious about where things are going, this should be your first stop. By adopting new stuff agressively, it serves as testing ground for all Linux distributions (and even beyond), so you do benefit regardless.

Besides, Red Hat does support Fedora very heavily, it is not just some kind of orphan left to its own devices.

Please look a bit closer (and try out stuff for a while) before critizising.

Is Fedora still relevant?
Jesus man! Yes, it's still relevant. I've been using Red Hat since RPM hit the beat in 1996 with 4.2. Yes, Fedora may not be for the average user, but it sure as hell has come a long way since it's start.
I agree with amaniev and will add that Fedora is an excellent place for people to really get their hands dirty. Sure you're gonna make some mistakes here and there. That's natural. But wait, why pick up the phone and call for help or take time to log onto a site and then search when all I have to is use Google. If it hasn't been solved by a Fedora user surely a flavor of Linux (Ubuntu and its community) will be able to offer some answers.
All this aside, it still doesn't take the average user more than three days to solve even the most difficult task. That is of course unless they're recompiling the kernel.

Fedora is needed.

I am glad there are very strong Gentoo, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu communities. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. Anything that is "cool" and "really works" in one distro tends to work its way into other distros. They are all the better for it.

Fedora used to run slow on my systems and I prefer DEB to RPM. With things like plymoth and pulse audio Fedora has proven they are always willing to push in directions that Ubuntu won't. Anything that Fedora does that works will be rolled into Ubuntu.

Ubuntu has been great. They pick up the slack from Fedora at making the desktop better. Mark Shuttleworth can say "Yo! Better Notifications" or "Yo! 10 second boot times" or "Yo! Better art work" and Ubuntu has it in the next 2 releases. On the other hand, they seem hell bent on stripping everything out of Gnome that they can to replace it with Mono apps. In the long run. I believe that Mono will be a hindrance. And what is with even considering dropping Gimp for Fspot? Also KDE is a second class citizen. The fact that Fedora is around and is a bit more wary about Microsoft, Novel and Mono is a good thing.

Debian provides the very base that Ubuntu is able to build on. They are dogmatic where Ubuntu is pragmatic. The angels sing when they hear "Apt". On the other hand, stable means old and crusty. They also are so democratic it takes forever to move ahead.

Gentoo is fast, I love their documentation and they are another very strong community.

Linux is better for having all of them around. If any of them wanders to far in the wrong direction. We always have another distro we can turn to.

I am about to load Fedora 11, my first foray into Fedora since Fedora 3.

Viva la diversity!

well...what can i say....we can't judge red hat as a traitor (some of my friends thought that)...if you say that red hat is not fully supported fedora, i won't say that wrong....but to put fedora on recycle bin as what do you want....i guess not...
see it....linux developments don't stand in a distro....i'm ubuntu user as well as PClinuxOS....from those distros (not only ubuntu and PCLinuxOS) i can advice my consumers which linux or *nix system is the most suitable for they need....some applications or some systems might be fail to work on fedora...but those gave another developers to develop better applications...well i guess i like to think that way....nothing should be restricted here....