On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 14:24, Phil Schaffner wrote: > > Let's be cristal clear there, you might get support for Whitebox Linux > > but it won't come from Red Hat. > > > > Daniel > > But as long as there are SRPMS there can be community support. The point being made is that if you find a bug in Whitebox Linux, and that bug doesn't get fixed in a RHEL update, and the Whitebox maintainers can't fix it, Red Hat has no obligation to fix that bug. With the support you buy with RHEL you stand an extremely high chance that your bug gets fixed in a future update. "community support" is all well and good, but taking the Fedora kernel as an example.. asides from AMD64 input from Justin, and a half dozen random fixes from folks to various bugs, 99% of the fixes going in there are done by myself and other Red Hat employees. Hopefully over time, as Fedora matures, this ratio will change (Especially when things like external CVS appears). Given this is the level of external support that the Red Hat support community distro has had so far, what makes you think that the (not fixed in RHEL) bugs in Whitebox Linux would be fixed by the community any quicker ? Additionally, the second that you start putting community fixes into Whitebox Linux, you've *really* started a proper fork, making future updates painful to integrate. Dave
