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[Ali Erdinç Köroğlu]

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Hi,

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 07:21:58 -0500
Dave Ihnat <ignatz at dminet.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:54:08PM +0300, Ali Erdinç Köro?lu wrote:
> > The main difference between RedHat and the other community distros
> > is support, if you are not interesting with support why dont you use
> > slackware, gentoo or ubuntu etc.. RedHat not selling license or something
> > but support service.
> 
> Well, that's one view; but I believe you're missing a point, and if
> you continue to operate under this assumption you'll miss much of the
> utility of Linux.

Ok then let me give some information about myself, I'm a Linux developer, we are developing National Linux
Distro for Turkey (www.uludag.org.tr) on the otherhand I'm making researches on Gentoo Linux (currenty I use gentoo) 
and Fedora project, developing embedded RHEL/Fedora and embedded Mail server based on gentoo. 
Also I do work for RedHat/Prosoft in Turkey. So as you see I dont miss anything of Linux..

> You buy RedHat because it's a supported distribution, suitable for use
> in a commercial environment.  I don't use RedHat on my personal/company
> servers; *I* don't need the support, and the costs are right out of
> my pocket.  But I wouldn't dare put something like Fedora in an untended
> client site--while I have no qualms about dropping a RedHat Enterprise box
> in as a mail server at such a site.

If you dont need support then use Fedora or whatever you like but when someone ask about a software or installation 
which is not included in RHEL distros then this is not the correct list. 

> But there ARE packages that add real utility to a Linux installation
> that, for one reason or another, aren't distributed by RedHat.

There is always a reason if a software is not included in RHEL distros. This reason could be the license or project life time
or project it self so This decision making by RedHat itself. 

Also every version of RHEL has a 7 year life time. So all softwares which is included in RHEL distros should be 
supported for 7 years or more. Please look at the softwares which is in RHEL distros, RedHat support the projects 
or even give developers for the projects. 

> Commercial third- party applications; or Open Source packages that
> they simply haven't decided are part of what they're going to support.
> Linux, unlike Windows (and like Unix), is adequately designed such that,
> unless a package actually requires kernel mods--and usually even then--it
> is unlikely to bring down the system even when misbehaving.  You have
> a stable, up-to-date system, AND you get your add-on capabilities.
> If you have a problem with the add-on, disable or remove it and you're
> either back where you were, or you find that the problem isn't because
> of that package.

If user will maintain his packages and not looking for RedHat support they can do whatever they want but this list is not for
this purpose. This list for "General RedHat Linux discussion" but if someone still looking for extra packages then he/she can 
join of fedora-extras-commits [1] or fedora-extras-list [2] mailing lists.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-commits
[2] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list

Regards
Ali Erdinç Köroglu
http://www.prosoft.com.tr
http://www.erdinc.info

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