From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 28 07:43:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D7C916A417 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:43:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from mail.ipt.ru (mail.ipt.ru [194.62.233.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6FB13C457 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:43:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from admin.sem.ipt.ru ([192.168.12.1] helo=ipt.ru) by mail.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1IbAVs-000IDZ-Kk; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:43:52 +0400 Received: from bsam by ipt.ru with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1IbAXi-000BJp-TP; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:45:46 +0400 To: "Marcel Cuculici" References: <4bdb2e0b0709272357x4ca4ab50gd0d1c08f16761278@mail.gmail.com> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:45:46 +0400 In-Reply-To: <4bdb2e0b0709272357x4ca4ab50gd0d1c08f16761278@mail.gmail.com> (Marcel Cuculici's message of "Fri\, 28 Sep 2007 09\:57\:35 +0300") Message-ID: <00353925@srv.sem.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.99 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Fedora core 4 by defalut and not Fedora 7 or another distribution? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:43:54 -0000 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