Red Hat, Fedora, what's the difference?
In case you don't follow these things, let me be the first to point out that Red Hat's 'consumer' product is no more - in name, at least; it's now called Fedora. Apparently this represents a merger between RH and a preexisting project.

I'm a little skeptical of the press releases that come out of these sorts of events. The first real indication of how things will be under the new regime came yesterday, when the first test release of Fedora became available - though it's really the second test release of what was once going to be Red Hat 9.1 (or 10?). I was unimpressed that the Fedora download page was missing links to a bittorrent of the ISOs. I've been using bittorrent for a few months, and it's amazing - a really smart combination of the strengths of P2P apps, webservers, and FTP. The server hosting a file is spared much of the bandwidth that would normally be consumed, and the end user gets greatly improved download times.

To illustrate - I'm pulling the ISOs down to a colocated server at the moment, from http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/, and was floored when I saw that the transfer was starting at rates of around 660 KB/s. That was only the beginning, though. A few minutes later, download speed was continuing to inch its way up, hitting a high water mark of over 2200 KB/s before dropping to a steady rate in the mid-1900s. I didn't keep a close track of the overall time, but all 2 GB must have taken around 20 minutes to get onto the server.

Absolutely amazing, and when such good technology is easily available, you have to wonder why a project like Fedora wouldn't continue Red Hat's recent inclusion of torrents for their ISO files. I don't want to be down on the project before they get started, but it is at the least an annoyance. Hopefully this is just an isolated teething pain; the last test release of Red Hat was the slickest and least painful *nix I've installed on a workstation, and I'd hate to see that momentum lost in the reshuffling.
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