On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 11:34 -0800, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > I have been using both Fedora and Redhat EL systems > and it seems to me that the split between these > distributions makes it more easy for Fedora to form a > community with a set of third party repositories and > packagers working with it while Redhat EL is left out > in the cold with a few exceptions like dag's > repository. > > One of the reasons is that Redhat EL is tied into a > subscription model (ie) the binaries are not available > for free from Redhat itself. While third party > rebuilds like centos(centos.org) do a good job of > filling that need, it might be more beneficial for > Redhat to supply the binaries and ISO images itself > without a support subscription attached to it. A > subscription would only be available for a fee. > I'm fairly sure this is off-topic for this list. I'm not even sure where it's on topic, but I'm positive this list is not it. -sv
