Where are all the updates gone?

[Les Mikesell]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>> Aaron Konstam:
>>>> Personally I get tired of people saying that Fedora is not a RedHat
>>>> product. Repeat to self the motto: If it walks as a duck .....
>>
>> ... and squawks like a penguin...
>>
>>
>> Rahul Sundaram:
>>> 1) It not a product at all from Red Hat or otherwise. It is available
>>> as ISO images for download and never sold. 
>>
>> Though, it's quite clearly sponsored by it.  Fedora wouldn't be around
>> if Red Hat wasn't it's basis (in source, hosting, and all).  Fedora
>> certainly isn't a Debian or Mandrake product.  And it's configured and
>> structured like Red Hat Linux.
>>
> 
> Oh, that makes CentOS a Red Hat product, right?

The 'upstream provider' won't let CentOS mention their name, so no one 
can say that...

> Or is it a derivative?

Not much difference, is there?

> And since CentOS is a derivative of Red Hat that would mean the folks at 
> CentOS are controlled by Red Hat, right?

The folks aren't, but the product stays bug-for-bug compatible, although 
CentOS offers some extra choices in the centosplus repository.

> And, doesn't Ubuntu follow in 
> the footsteps of the Debians of the world?  :-)

No, Ubuntu has a planned release schedule.

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