Concerns about RedHat's email

[Gerry Tool]

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:38, Gerry Tool wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:13, Maxwell Kanat-Alexander wrote:
> > 	There have been about three people tonight who have come into #fedora
> > concerned about an email they got from RedHat.
> > 
> > 	They have _all_ believed that up2date will no longer work in Fedora and
> > that Fedora Core 1 (a) is unstable

I forgot to mention I've used Fedora Core in Test1,2,3 and it is a rock
solid distro.  I don't use my RHL9 install for anything anymore.


>  and (b) has fewer packages than
> > RedHat 9.
> > 
> > 	Perhaps some clarification is in order?
> 
> I got an e-mail also, but came to different conclusions.
> 
> Up2date will certainly still work, but it's relationship to Red Hat
> Network may not be the same.  I'm also confused whether an RHN
> subscription is of any use with Fedora, but have an e-mail off to Red
> Hat to clarify that since they seem to have automatically renewed my
> subscription and charged my credit card enabling the entitlement for
> another year.
> 
> I don't know where the "fewer packages" idea came from.  It could be
> that an initial install of Fedora Core might have fewer packages, but
> from everything I've seen, there should be _more_ packages available
> when the total integration of all the Fedora parts is achieved.  I
> expect the base OS to have the same packages available as Red Hat Linux
> 9 except for the few that are dropped (some replaced by new ones) as
> detailed in the Fedora Release Notes available in rawhide.

at 

ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RELEASE-NOTES.html

for example.

Gerry