Red Hat World Tour
Melbourne leg of the Red Hat World Tour, in the APAC region. Their Partner Development Manager, from America decided to spread some Fedora FUD (bad, bad):
- “Fedora have nightly builds, and things can break on a nightly basis with the introduction of new undocumented features”
- “We do our testing on the Fedora Project”
Some dude in the crowd, with a Microsoft Most Valued Professional tag, asked why there’s a lack of binary RHEL builds. The usual, if we do that, people sell it and imply there’s support for the product. I thought to myself, that’s okay, they’ll just pirate ya’all.
Haven’t seen any mention of this anywhere, but RH are launching what they call the Red Hat Driver Programme. Critical for business drivers are in that list, and its rumored that Nvidia, Broadcom, and more are there. No idea of what they’re doing with the binary driver list, but time will tell (timeframe from next week to two months).
All in all, they ran the machine that presented the entire thing not on the Red Hat Desktop, but on Fedora Core! “This is a preview release of Red Hat Desktop,” Mike said. Pfft. Chris has a little report of what happened in Kuala Lumpur.
Hung out with Russell for most of the tour, didn’t stay for lunch, since she got back from the weekend holidays. I cooked prawn mee (with huge tiger prawns!), which was a wee bit too spicy for us.
 Durian cake got baked |
 And I got a wand! |
October 12th, 2004 at 7:07 pm
What was the name of the Partner Devel guy? That’s not Red Hat’s stated policy on Fedora, and looks bad if he’s not giving a message consistent with the rest of RH.
Did you point the errors out to him?
October 12th, 2004 at 7:15 pm
Pointed out quietly later, becuase it really did seem like a “why you’d buy RHEL, along with Oracle, running on Intel platforms”. If his name’s right, I think he’s a Mike Evans. Tall, American bloke…
November 9th, 2006 at 12:09 am
omg, that’s interesting. where i can find more information about fedora?