Why Fedora core 4 by defalut and not Fedora 7 or another distribution?

Boris Samorodov bsam at ipt.ru
Fri Sep 28 00:43:54 PDT 2007


On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:57:35 +0300 Marcel Cuculici wrote:

> Hello everyone, i`m courious why it has been choosed *Fedora core 4* as an
> defalut linux compatibility, and not *Fedora 7* *or 6* in the first place,

A work to switch to a new version is not finished. At -CURRENT you may
try to use linux kernel version 2.6.16.

> and in the second why fc and not or another distro as *Arch*, *Debian*,
> Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mandriva,*Gentoo* etc.

Mostly for historical reasons. At first it was Red Hat. Then Fedora
(sometimes) Core. But you know anyone (maybe you?) may change the
status-quo. ;-)


WBR
-- 
Boris Samorodov (bsam)
Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP
FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list