won't compete in any way with the "higher quality product" there seems to be problems. Requests for Opteron support, ipvs support and other such things in the community project get denied because these types of
Actually opteron support is one thing most of us are expecting will appear in the community RHLP space pretty rapidly.
RHEL in order to get them. It seems that more and more server software will be removed from RHLP in order to "not compete" with RHEL, making RHLP a nonviable platform for smaller businesses who require server
There are ten children in a playground with a GPL'd ball, one of them storms off taking his ball with him. Because its a GPL'd ball the other kids all have one too.
One of the major goals of RHLP is to get closer to base - which means the 2.6 kernel tree has ipvs in base. The update tool can also pull from third party repositories of your choice.
RHEL is about quality Red Hat support, testing, slow rates of change and errata that are just minimal tested fixes. RHLP is about being close to the community releases, tracking new releases when they are available and getting the latest and greatest out there, while trying to ensure it actually works.
Some of the package choices are down to deadlines, others to maintainability and - much a relic from the older setup, supportability.
Alan