February 20, 2005

Red Hat: red face

by brian_turner

Red Hat have acknowledged that in its push for mainstream markets, it has likely left behind crucial developer support – an issue it is now trying to correct.

Its problems center specifically on the restrictive development of the Fedora core for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and how developers were left with little else to do but submit bug reports, rather than offer coding solutions.

The issue first came to a head in January as reported in Red Hat tries again with Linux enthusiasts. Now at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, the company admits its prior failings to engage developers, and is trying to draw them back in to the company, as reported in Red Hat: Fedora will engage customers.

This comes at a time of increasing competition in the open source movement, with Sun Microsystems planning on open source development of OpenSolaris.

Within Linux itself, there have been projects created as alternatives to Fedora, such as Ubuntu Linux, Whitebox Linux, and more established Linux distros, such as Gentoo, are enjoying an increasingly high profile.

Red Hat are planning on releasing Fedora Core 4 this year, which offers increased accessibility to IBM open source software, as well as allowing multiple operating systems to run with it.

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