* I love Fedora, use it as my primary OS for more than a decade
* also love Thinkpads, have used on and off for 25+ years
But I have mixed feelings about this announcement and hope it is just more vaporware (as Fedora on Thinkpad has been announced before).
Part of what I love about Fedora is that it is just on the other side of the river from corporate RHEL. So it inherits a ton of the infrastructure and the process and so forth, but it doesn't have to pay for it.
Instead Fedora gets shiny new things pretty quickly and sometimes, not often, things break. Support is- whatever you can find. That's great.
Once you get into the world where stuff has to work because sales and support contracts- the dynamic changes. Fewer new things, less speed, more conformity.
It's not Fedora any more.
We could see this looming in the acquisition. Hope it takes yet still longer for the bureaucracy to chew through.
* I love Fedora, use it as my primary OS for more than a decade
* also love Thinkpads, have used on and off for 25+ years
But I have mixed feelings about this announcement and hope it is just more vaporware (as Fedora on Thinkpad has been announced before).
Part of what I love about Fedora is that it is just on the other side of the river from corporate RHEL. So it inherits a ton of the infrastructure and the process and so forth, but it doesn't have to pay for it.
Instead Fedora gets shiny new things pretty quickly and sometimes, not often, things break. Support is- whatever you can find. That's great.
Once you get into the world where stuff has to work because sales and support contracts- the dynamic changes. Fewer new things, less speed, more conformity.
It's not Fedora any more.
We could see this looming in the acquisition. Hope it takes yet still longer for the bureaucracy to chew through.