Fedora project leader Mark Spevack gave an interview to slashdot where he answers questions about Fedora and what significant part it will play in the future of Linux. He is asked about the worst aspect of Fedora, enabling NTFS support in future versions of Fedora, comparison of Fedora with Ubuntu and many other interesting questions which surprisingly, he tackles and answers in a very honest and clear manner. And when confronted with the problem faced by Linux on the closed source (propritery) drivers, his solution is to vote with your wallet. Buy only those hardware for which you have open source drivers readily available.
One grouse I have about Fedora is its crappy way of updating/installing software. In the past, when ever I tried installing software in Fedora using Yum, I have found it to take trible the time it takes an apt-get to install the same software in a Debian based distro. Of course it could have been a case of using the repository in the wrong geographic location. But still Yum cannot be compared with apt-get in efficient management of packages on one's system. Fortunately, there is a version of apt-get available for Fedora too.
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