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[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 12:02 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > still broken apps being shipped.... Fedora Core is not a maintenance
> > release of enterprise software, it's a linux distribution designed to
> > bring new technology and features to the masses. Hopefully those masses
> > include ISVs who will now get of their butts to fix their apps
> > quicker ;)
> 
> I think you've hit on a problem.  The ISVs that I work with are
> completely focused on "Enterprise Linux" distributions -- which is the
> idea.  AFAICT, they have not gotten the message that they should be
> testing their software on Fedora Core.

to be fair both RHEL3 and RHEL4 default to NPTL....


> Perhaps each release of Fedora Core should be wrapped up in a nice box
> and shipped out to all of the ISVs as a RHEL "Technical Preview" or
> some such thing.

there's ongoing work in RH to work with ISVs better (well isn't there
always :). It's sometimes hard, for some of these ISVs linux is a really
really small portion of their customer base and they spend as little
money/time on it as possible. 
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