Information Week Fedora 9 Review

Rahul just posted this to the marketing list, and I think the comments made are perhaps the best I’ve seen in any review of Fedora to date.

What is it about Fedora that’s so appealing to me personally?  As much as I’ve liked Ubuntu, for instance, there’s just something about Fedora that seems more immediately welcoming and less ostentatious.  That’s a subjective thing, but there are other things that are not as subjective.  It’s not about which window manager to use, or even the code itself, since the vast majority of what’s in any given Linux distribution is all the same code.  It’s about the choices made by the folks who packaged the distribution: how closed-source drivers are handled, how the distro deals with the upstream, what they felt was worth keeping in a default installation, and what could be left up to the user to install.  The distro choices are becoming more about this kind of aesthetics, and Fedora feels like it has the best mix of these things for me.

Read the full article here. With the set of reviews Fedora has received this release, it seems like our commitment to upstream, to free software, and to encouraging participation and not just consumption is really paying dividends. The strength of our community, the quality of our software and our reputation have all grown.