My main fear with Fedora is: what happens if Fedora grows into a fantastic Distribution? I mean terrific! What will Redhat do? If Fedora is better than Redhat linux Workstation/Server or whatever commercial product who will buy Redhat's commercial distributions? No one.

So will Redhat pull the plug on Fedora? Perhaps they'll jeapordize it somehow, or greatly impeded it's development. Forgive the analogy to Microsoft, but it's like Microsoft giving you a free verison of Windows XP, let's call it, Windows XFree and then also selling Windows XP. If XFree was stable and great, nobody would buy XP and Microsoft would counter by doing something to gain interest in XP. Just as Redhat if would or atleast should.

Sorry Redhat I just see it that way. Any feedback is great. I have tried Fedora and it is pretty good. I'd say it has a few bugs but is useable. I would not use it as a server however. Thanks, everyone. Prem.

I thinke Fedora is meant as the "testing" Red Hat. Those who need support and a longer product life cycle will choose RH whilst those who favor the latest and greatest software will choose Fedora and the latter will end up as the "testers" for later RH products. Fedora will have 2-3 releases per year and the older releases will not be updated or supported meaning you have to upgrade... Not sure if that really counters your argument but my 2 cents anyways

Well, the largest pull between a free product, like Fedora, and a commercial product like Red Hat, is the support. Yes, you can get support for Fedora at community forums such as this one, but your support is at the whim of those reading your questions and whether they know enough to help you and/or have the time to do so.

With the commercial product, you have a telephone number you can call (or e-mail address you can write to) to contact a real live person and get one-on-one support where their function is to help you get your problem resolved. If there is a problem that cannot be resolved by one person, they have the resources to research and resolve your issue. Also, with commercial distros there may be added tools and features that are provided under a more controlled or proprietary environment.

I don't think that Red Hat will pull the plug on Fedora. It serves as a testbed for things that will go into Red Hat's commercial product, and it's effectively free marketing for their brand.

My argument againt Fedora is only for those people who would consider using Fedora for production or primary use. I'm saying don't use Fedora as your primary desktop or primary server. If you want to get involved and help Redhat test stuff for Rehdat X.Y|[server] then Fedora is great. I'm just a skeptical guy . Thanks for the reply, Prem.

To add my observations... FC1 seems to be targeted at the corporate workstation market. Workstation and desktop distros are different in my mind. Mandrake is much better suited for home/desktop use IMHO, but Core 1 makes doing other things, like logging in through a NIS server, seem almost trivial in comparison. Each distro has a different intended audience and RedHat has aimed squarely at corporations... same way Gentoo targets software developers, I might add.

Even if Redhat pulled the plug--and I doubt they will--development can continue because it is a community project. It wouldn't really be a Redhat product, and probably would slow development and look a lot less pretty, but it could continue.

Also, before they were offering Redhat Linux for download and for purchase. This is a different situation. Now Redhat is trying to sell supported Linux to enterprise customers while helping out on the latest and greatest for the enthuasist community.