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EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)

Both of these entries redirect to "Fedora (operating system)" but neither is mentioned on the page. This needs to be fixed! Urhixidur (talk) 17:52, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Urhixidur Weird. Shouldn't EPEL be redirected to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS? The first article does mention it! User:Tetizeraz. Send me a ✉️ ! 19:15, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

EPEL is organised by a Fedora Special Interest Group, so it probably warrants a mention here *and* in the RHEL page. Or its own article, I guess. --Earin (t) 12:43, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

IBM to acquire Red Hat

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-red-hat-m-a-ibm/ibm-nears-deal-to-acquire-cyber-security-company-red-hat-sources-idUKKCN1N20N5

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-is-reportedly-nearing-deal-to-acquire-red-hat.html

Update as of 2018 IBM is subjected to take over Fedora Project due to the Red Hat Merger. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:C600:8270:A563:D5B6:732C:339A (talk)

The IBM acquisition of Red Hat is complete, and Fedora Project has announced that the acquisition does not change anything about the relationship between Red Hat (which remains a distinct company, though owned by IBM) and the Fedora Project. So for now I'd say it has no notable impact on Fedora. Lunasspecto (talk) 20:24, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion re OS family

A discussion related to this article is in progress at Template talk:infobox OS#OS family. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:36, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Linus and Fedora

While it is factually true that Linus uses Fedora the sentence misses context. Linus said he is not a distribution or MIS person, he is not interested in maintaining Linux machines. He says is a "technical person" because he wrote the kernel but that is different. He says once he learns a distribution he sticks with it so he can get on with life ie. writing kernels. It is thought he chose Fedora because of its support for PowerPC. In short, Linus's decision to use Fedora is somewhat random and not particularly notable when given proper context. It is like a sports star who drives a certain model car is purely promotional, not because the sports star is an expert on cars. The question is do we promote Fedora this way, and if so, do we include text and sources that place it into proper context. -- GreenC 17:42, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Problems

Because the Wikipedia article looks like subjective marketing material there should objectively be "problems" chapter too. For example clearly describing that one should use only the latest version because earlier versions will be unsupported, and if suddenly later on supported then you'll end up upgrading anyway. Due to simple facts like kernel is compiled using gcc version which is not available when you need to compile modules.

Naturally clear statement facts and no whining but please write objectively. seen engineer pornography enough. //arl — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.157.84.67 (talk • contribs)