Fedora and Redhat EL

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Dec 8 19:38:37 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 11:34 -0800, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have been using both Fedora and Redhat EL systems
> and it seems to me that the split between these
> distributions makes it more easy for Fedora to form a
> community with a set of third party repositories and
> packagers working with it while Redhat EL is left out
> in the cold with a few exceptions like dag's
> repository. 
> 
> One of the reasons is that Redhat EL is tied into a
> subscription model (ie) the binaries are not available
> for free from Redhat itself. While third party
> rebuilds like centos(centos.org) do a good job of
> filling that need, it might be more beneficial for
> Redhat to supply the binaries and ISO images itself
> without a support subscription attached to it. A
> subscription would only be available for a fee. 
> 

I'm fairly sure this is off-topic for this list.

I'm not even sure where it's on topic, but I'm positive this list is not
it.

-sv





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