taharka wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 15:07 -0400, William Hooper wrote: > >> taharka wrote: >>> How do, >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 11:43 -0400, William Hooper wrote: >>> >>> >>>> taharka wrote: >>>>> Red Hat users invited to test RHEL 5 >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> This has what to do with Fedora? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Plenty, Red Hat has to do with Fedora same as Novell has to do with >>> SUSE ;-) >>> >> >> Not really. RHEL is a completely different distribution with >> completely different goals than Fedora. RHEL discussions have very >> little to do with Fedora. >> > > RHEL ain't that much different, being that new features/technology > introduced come from none other than Fedora. I never said they didn't. But once it becomes RHEL, very few new features/technologies will introduced into that codebase. > So, tell me, why is it, when > some one on this list, mentions using Fedora on a server for mission > critical stuff, the immediate response is always, it shouldn't be used & > RHEL/CentOS is recommended? For most "Mission Critical" servers, reinstalling ~1 a year is not desired. >> Novell is a company that produces the SUSE distribution. >> > > No kidding, that was merely an example to show the relationship between > Red Hat/Fedora & that same relationship between Novell/SUSE. The post wasn't about "Red Hat" the company, it was about RHEL, the distribution. >>> Perhaps some Fedora users are interested in Red Hat's enterprise >>> offerings for stability & support? >> >> Then they should be subscribed to the RHEL lists. Should everyone >> start posting SUSE, Ubuntu, and Gentoo news here because "some Fedora >> users are interested in..."? > > And, just who are you to be determining who should be subscribed to what > lists? Different lists are created so that the people interested in a particular topic can have a list to discuss it. Over generalizing the list (you know, like posting stuff about a completely different distribution) will just lead to this list becoming a bigger mess than it is already. > It ain't my call to say what's posted to this list. It is when you're hitting the send button. -- William Hooper
