On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:45:48AM +0900, javajunkie wrote: > > . Instead, take a look at CentOS. The new CentOS release > > due out in a month or so is based on Fedora Core 6 and will be supported for > > almost a decade. > Hmm, it's not based on FC6 but rather RHEL5. Yes, and RHEL5 is based on FC6. Judging from the beta, *very* based-on. > As for the seemingly suspicious view of CentOS, they would argue they > are actually helping. Definitely. > For instance, in the new RHEL5 beta, redhat is said to "take .fc6 stuff > as is and used it (not necessarily compiled on their el5 builder" (quote > from the centos list). CentOS is trying to put a beta together with > everything compiled on the el5 builder and of course finding things that > need to be done to do that. Exactly. > I can't say in actuality if the information they are turning up is > working it's way back to RH (in bug reports or whatever), but some > people suggest it is and that such info will be eventually needed to > turn out a final RHEL5. Yes, there are bugs filed with Red Hat's bugzilla. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
