Memo: Red Hat Linux & Fedora (fwd)

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:50, Mark W. Jeanmougin wrote:
> Here is a memo that I sent to my employers where I outline how we will be 
> affected by the Fedora / Red Hat merger.  Like many other companies out 
> there, we have RHL deployed without paying Red Hat for support.
> 
> Hopefully others will be able to correct any factual errors I have.  I 
> hope that someone else may be able to use this to inform their management 
> of upcoming changes.
> 

<snip...>

> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:52:47 -0400
> Subject: Memo: Red Hat Linux & Fedora
> 
> This week, Red Hat and Fedora Project announced their merger.  Red Hat is,
> of course, the US's largest distributor of Linux based operating systems.
> "Fedora is a community project dedicated to building high-quality, 3rd party
> rpms, for the Red Hat Linux distribution."  [1]
> 
> As a result of this merger, the future direction of the Red Hat Linux
> project has changed.  Things aren't set in stone yet, but it appears that we
> have reached the end of gratis Linux distributions from Red Hat.
> 
> Red Hat will continue to market, develop, and support their Red Hat

<snip...>

The only things I would add in there would be:

1) While Red Hat will not be providing *support* for Fedora (the
community will do this), Red Hat *will* be providing updates for Fedora
via RHN. A number of third-party repositories in the community will also
carry add-ons (is that the correct term?) to Fedora. These third parties
may or may not make their repositories available free of charge,
although it looks like the majority will be free at the moment.

2) Red Hat intends that new features implemented in Fedora will likely
make their way into RHEL, either via updates to RHEL or via new releases
when they occur.


Can't think of anything else right now...

Anyone have other corrections / additions / deletions?

Cheers,

Chris

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