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
