On 04/10/2012 10:22 AM, Bluejay Adametz wrote:
>> Well, within limits. Otherwise you have user rebelions, etc. I guess they use Fedora as a thermometer.
>
> I wonder just how much the user base overlaps between Fedora and RHEL.
>
> Around my little part of the world, the overlap is zero. The
> operations I support would never be candidates for a short-lifetime
> bleeding-edge distribution like Fedora. They are, however, very good
> candidates for SL or RHEL.

Where I work they overlap considerably, but we are doing development in 
Fedora and further upstream and deployment from SL and Vine (and support 
for TUV and CentOS, of course). So for those of us working everyone uses 
Fedora (though I think we only have one person who uses the default 
desktop -- everyone else is a KDE user now; go figure), but 
non-enterprise type customers are running Vine instead of TUV/SL/CentOS, 
which is pretty different in many respects.

I won't turn this into a rant -- but there are a few places in the 
plumbing where people near me think architectural mistakes have been 
made by becoming too distant from Unixy thinking where it counts, and 
yet lagged behind on GUI functionality in key places.

For example, its difficult to script network setup based on rules 
without taking account of pushback from the system in some areas for the 
reasons discussed in this thread, but printer setup is still sketchy 
(Letter <-> A4 issues are still the plague!) and not something you can 
do without root access by default. So hamstring the *nixy parts that we 
can count on, and don't get the ease of integration across devices that 
other platforms have for something critical like printing.

Maybe the focus is in the wrong place, or just lacking in general. Too 
many pots on the fire?

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