According to this message published on its mailing list, SourceForge has decided to upgrade its servers from Debian "Potato" to Fedora Core 2: "The SourceForge.net team is pleased to announce the long-awaited upgrade to our project web service. SourceForge.net staff are currently in the process of completing hardware procurement and system build-out. The official date for this upgrade has not yet been set; once our hardware build-out has been completed, the date will be announced on the SourceForge.net Site Status page. Old configuration: Debian Potato, Linux kernel 2.4.x. New configuration: Fedora Core 2, Linux kernel 2.6.x." Although the email does not specify the reasons for moving from Debian to Fedora, the upgrade of what is the largest repository of open source development projects in the world should give users a boost of confidence in the Fedora project. As we all know, there are circles of sceptics, who consider Fedora Core an experimental (i.e. not well-tested and potentially unstable) edition of Red Hat's flagship product - Red Hat Enterprise Linux, not suitable to power mission critical servers. If the SourceForge migration is successful, it will prove them wrong once and for all.

Source : www.distrowatch.com