On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:51:27PM -0400, Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
Point of View
Gee and I thought Red Hat would have let us in on it, again the Red Hat
community is the last to know.
Found at http://www.fedora.us/ thru Slashdot
So where does that leave us - Red Hat 9, Severn and then what...
Is that the main reason why apt-get is getting more attention?
and maybe eventually it will be called apt-rpm?
The Fedora Project - An Open-Source Digital Repository Management System
link: http://www.fedora.info/
What is going to happen to the Red Hat RPM Guide by Red Hat Press that
just came out recently (will that now become outdated now? and I
faithful bought to become more knowledge about THE Red Hat Product -
humm) which is being promoted on their web site in their Community
Dialog box (top left hand corner) found at http://www.redhat.com/
Another question - Is Red Hat Enterprise the solution that Red Hat is
going after and forgetting about Red Hat Linux Desktop.
Should we start getting nervous? Nothing said is the same as something
said. That's how Sherlock Holmes was able to solve some of his cases
e.g. It's what the dog didn't do that prompted the solution and provided
the clinching clue. Or am I reading to much into it.
Old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times."
I am a subscriber to KRUD (Kevin's RedHat Uber Distribution)
http://www.tummy.com/krud/
which is a superset of the Red Hat distro. I am a subscriber to its
mailing list, and this morning, I saw a message from KRUD asking for
comments on the Fedora development. My first question was who/what is
Fedora? Google shed a little light on the subject, but left me
saying, "Beats heck out of me."
Announcement: Red Hat Linux Merging with Fedora Linux
September 22, 2003
* Red Hat Linux Project is merging with the Fedora Linux Project,
and the resulting combined project will be named the Fedora Project.
* During the next few months, Fedora and Red Hat will work toward
integrating our packages, infrastructure, policies, and procedures with
the goal of creating a much larger community based Linux distribution
project. Until this new infrastructure is ready, Fedora will continue to
publish packages using the old infrastructure at fedora.us, while the
new project infrastructure, policies and documentation will be formed at
fedora.redhat.com.
* This merger necessitates the removal of certain problematic packages
due to licensing issues.
* There is a lot of work to be done, so please join us in
#fedora at irc.freenode.net and subscribe to the Fedora
mailing lists at fedora.redhat.com.
I guess Isabel brought more than expected.
Chris Cz
Their removal of "certain problematic packages" has no impact on us,
as RH has already done that, viz. xmms mp3 stuff, et al.
I'm a firm believer in the free market, "the invisible hand" and all
that. If RH decides to concentrate on the commercial (Enterprise)
market, and I can't say I blame them - Red Hat is in business to make
a profit, for Pete's sake, and allows another (volunteer) organization
to shepherd the desktop distribution, I think everyone will come out
as things should be. RH will find out if Linux is commercially
viable, and the volunteer community will (continue to) support the
desktop.
Linux and open source and GPLed software has certainly benefitted from
the involvement of commercial enterprises, but the volunteer community
got them to that point. I think we'll do just fine, thank you.
Cheers,