On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:04:13AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 01:21, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Very unlikely. RHEL is too boring for a community to participate. It is almost stagnant which is great for enterprises but not for the community. If RHEL would have been suitable for everyone Red Hat wouldnt started Fedora or vice versa.
Your argument would be more convincing if you could point out some directions that FC has taken that are more in the community interest than in building the next RHEL. Can you?
RHEL4 looks very much like a direct cutover from what was built in FC3 with Mysql4.x dropped in, and so far everything in subsequent FC releases looks like more of the same. If this is really supposed to be a community project, shouldn't it take some directions that aren't aimed at building the next RHEL version?
One can argue to what extent the community project Fedora is. But, it is a community project whose purpose is too improve Red Hat's Linux offering. They pay the core people who design and work on it so in some sense they have a right to use it for their purposes. But as I have said many times before I wish Red Hat would be more open to the opinions of the community. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484