Re:Why Mir
by 0xFFC on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:09AM
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As someone who used Fedora for long time, I completely agree with that evaluation, I did see how fedora/redhat community jumped and pushed as hard as they can to bring wayland to fedora as soon as possible (the same wayland was in pipeline for long long time).
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I may have ragged on RH in the past, but sometimes i wonder if RH/Fedora is the dog being wagged by the tail. The tail being Freedesktop and Gnome related projects and their devs (that sadly more often than not are employees at RH for various reasons).
This noted in how Fedora maintainers will often clash with those project devs, while RH basically sits and skims Fedora at intervals to form RHEL (freezing the state of Fedora at that point in time, and applying backports of various fixes etc).
Meaning that RH/Fedora, being the big dog in the distro pack, gets used by certain developers to ram through their agenda no matter if the larger Linux community wants it or not.