RMS vs Shuttleworth == Free Software vs Open Source.

There is NO WAY to be a fight between an ideological reason (Free Software) and an Academic/Practical reason based in facts in the software industry (Open Source). Both ones have different reasons (liberty, open collaboration, etc) and will not be coincident in "Why" do the things needed, and maybe in some "How" questions too.

They release this, and in many cases after become polluted by the same Oracle. OpenOffice is practically dead, Hudson is a dead corpse now when you talk about CI, Netbeans was proposed by the same Oracle for pass to an Apache Incubator project. MySQL is in a close match against MariaDB and Percona, after stupid attempts to complicate the release of the source code.

This will be the first time that Oracle give the product BEFORE screw up and kill this, after almost 7 years (Sun acquisition by Oracle finished in 2010). I maintain my doubts, more based in the privative licenses that Oracle can have in several JEE components, before gives this to an Open Community. This was an attempt with OpenJDK and OracleJDK "differences".

I bought one four months ago. The reason was that the first series that come with Broadwell processors, present some peculiarities with Linux (sound and battery life related) This comes with Windows 10 preinstalled but i reformat the machine and Install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and ArchLinux later. No problems with both ones. I return tu Ubuntu 16.04 because I am more happy with Unity 7, but with Archlinux I used Plasma 5 (KDE) and no problems. Battery Life is good, I checked the last time 10 hours only with battery.

In my case. My work commonly is put online/offline linux servers in cloud providers. And i don't like the idea for update my laptop Linux every year for something magic/new so I use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS that have 5 year support (not 9 months like the other versions or Fedora too) and for anything new for example latests Ansible versions, I added the PPA for this projects.

Fedora is a workcamp for Redhat, they experiment in Fedora new changes and updates with Gnome and now Wayland. This is the same work that Canonical do in Ubuntu (Unity and Mir) but with one difference, Redhat give long term support ONLY to Redhat Enterprise that is a stabilized Fedora release worked by many years, yes you can use CentOS instead but any support will come from the community. Canonical is a bit more "elastic" with their support for desktop/laptop machines on my view with a LTS release every two years and PPAs for community packages (for example i deploy servers with 14.04/16.04 LTS but with nginx and mariadb deployed from their PPAs)

for example

OpenOffice ... almost dead
Netbeans ... almost dead
OpenSolaris ... dead
Glassfish Server ... dead in commercial
MySQL ... almost dead first, now in war with MariaDB

we can see the glorious destination that DNS register will have ... maybe we are going to need to host DNS registers now in Oracle RACs!

this is NOT a mp3 library finally integrated ... <ironic>these are "mp3d" and "mp3ctl", integrated mp3 support in systemd, in few week we are going to finally have "journalctl --mp3" that give us journal logging in mp3 format!</ironic>

To simplify. AWS Linux try to be an "stable" rpm distro like CentOS 7, with the latest packages, but more closer to a rolling release model, something that Ubuntu discussed years ago and decided not to go. The problem with this work is that is flawed. Many people in AWS, updates ec2 images for their apps, and deploy their images in prod, and work previously in dev/stage/qa before and from this produce this images. And in Databases, AWS gives you more advantages with RDS, SimpleDB and DynamoDB cloud database services instead of you deploy database in ec2. To me is a way to compete against Canonical because inside AWS-EC2 you are going to find more instances deployed with Ubuntu LTS than with Amazon Linux, you can check this here: http://www.zdnet.com/article/u... http://thecloudmarket.com/stat...

Which part of BETA release is not understood? If you like to update because is the "latest version" every 6/9 months, go for a Rolling Release distribution (ArchLinux, Gentoo) and LEARN how manage this. Fedora needs something similar to Ubuntu LTS versions. That get updated continuously in Kernel, XOrg/Graphics, and maintain several packages updated by the community in a central way, like Canonical PPAs that have many years working. And no, CentOS 7 is not an option in desktop usage for many people, Gnome 3.8 in a desktop in 2016?

Read and UNDERSTAND this science fiction book and related works, without any sentiment-related emotion, only with thinking. And maybe, maybe ..... you can understand nothing because you don't know which version of your life is running now, and in which simulation universe, and if is in realtime, slower or faster ... Written 10+ years ago, the people say that "this is only for hackers..." now ... the truth is ... ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.antipope.org/charli...