Contributed by Devin
Saturday, 04 June 2005
Red Hat announced that it is releasing the copyrights and development work of the free Fedora version of Linux over to the Fedora Foundation.
Fedora FoundationRed Hat, one of the most popular Linux distributions, forked into two projects back in 2002. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) was targeted at commercial customers, while Fedora was the free, community distribution. Red Hat, Inc. has failed at trying to attract the outside involvement that it hoped to get with the Fedora project.
"The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software. Development will be done in a public forum ... By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system more in line with the ideals of free software and more appealing to the open source community," the Fedora Project Web site says.
Many developers have critisized the direction Fedora has taken with Red Hat, Inc. at the wheel. Fedora has become a testing ground for new technologies that eventually find their way to RHEL.
Some members of the community think that transfering control of the project to the new Fedora Foundation will keep the project community-driven.
more »
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment