"FC6 was the final release of Fedora Core."

[Tony Alfrey]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 11:31 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>> http://wtogami.livejournal.com/11707.html
>>>
>> Being Of Substantially Limited Mental Capacity And Generally Clueless 
>> (BOSLMCAGC), I don't get it.  Isn't this a case of "a rose by any other 
>> name . . . ."?
> 
> Ah, the Stranger from a Strange Land returns!! Been off sailing again??

No <glumly>, the sailing weather sorta sucks.

> Well, back to the topic, the REALLY big deal is that Fedora as a
> frenzied bleeding edge development structure is dead. Instead it will
> halt at FC6, which is a blessing as the pace of keeping up with 10-30
> new updates nightly has been rough. 

<description of pain and torture snipped>

> 
> So, no... it's not a rose by any other name, when the change is
> completely orchestrated to bring Fedora to RedHat as a combination of
> the best of both. 
<snip>

So does this mean that soon I can go out and buy Fedora Something and 
stick it on a new laptop that I don't necessarily have to compare every 
component on the box to an approved hardware list, and that developers 
of apps will look at the library list in Fedora Something as a standard 
and build around that?
Kinda like my Mac?

The Average Schmo.


-- 
Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
"I'd Rather Be Sailing Over My Daughter's Principal With Ellison's Keel"