On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:05:30AM -0700, Preston Crawford wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 23:06, K.M.Zammi Kahan wrote: > > Hi Pals, > > > > Ive been using Redhat since release 6 and appreciate it is > > improved a lot along with the rest of the open source community. > > Currently Im using FC test 2 and planning to upgrade to test 3 during > > the next weekendJ. Some of the features that I like to see in the next > > release of Fedora (FC3J), > > > > 1. Integrated system configuration interface. > > > > Although FC has all required config tools, integrated interface > > needed for centralized configuration. > > > > 2. Incorporate some multimedia tools like Xine/ Mplayer, K3B etc. By > > the time we will have more option like Vediolans VLC Player, Helix > > player as well. > > This won't happen (at least from what I understand) and for good reason. > Fedora is trying to be completely free and unfettered so that someone > could take Fedora and repackage it as something else without any legal > entanglements and without Red Hat the company being liable for anything > illegal finding its way into the distro. A sure-fire way to do this is > to include Xine and Mplayer. The main reason being that they'd > inevitably have to include codecs that aren't "above board" (kind of > like how you have to install xmms-mp3 separately. I'd rather it stayed > the way it is, personally. > The reason for Fedora's existance is many. I speculate that Redhat is covering their own arse. Think about it. If Redhat goes under today, fedora and all redhat's work will still survive and can be used by the opensource community. Then again RH could be just taking advantage of a free test environment. jay
