On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 22:26 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote: > I was interested in the information from all that posted links and such > to the different messages on lists which most are probably not > subscribed to. I wondered about the availability to get the beta and the > link William supplied answered that question. > > Excerpt; > Accessing the Software > ---------------------- > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 is made available to existing Red Hat > Enterprise Linux subscribers via RHN. > > So I guess I'll make do with Fedora and hope the software and > preferences that I like are still an interest to include within RHEL. > not for the sake of RHEL, but as a Fedora user. Quite a few of my > favorite applications migrated from Fedora Core into Fedora-Extras, sor > RHEL probably would be too slimmed down for my usage at home. RHEL will include some packages that are in Fedora Extras; they'll just be maintained (for the purposes of RHEL) by Red Hat staff instead of the community members that maintain the packages in Extras. Paul.