David Mansfield <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 19:25 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote: [...] > > To be honest, that's more or less what RHEL and the free rebuild CentOS > > are. > > Fedora is a sandbox of sorts. It's a place where applications come > > together and sometimes, where they come to die. :) > I use RHEL/CentOS extensively at work (versions 3, 4 and 5), and I'd > have to disagree about that. Tons of the 'cool' stuff that's in fedora > gets left out of RHEL/CentOS. Have you looked at EPEL? Much cool Fedora stuff ends up there. And if not, grabbing the SRPM and rebuilding is not /that/ hard either... > I don't know who decides what 'makes the > cut' for RHEL, but it certainly isn't the Fedora team. Small wonder... that is in the hands of the RHEL team ;-) > For example, gnumeric and git, both 'everyday' tools, are missing from > CentOS 5, AFAIK, but I'm talking about tons of other goodies. The RHEL > package selection process is too restrictive it would seem. RHEL is for production use, has to be rock-solid. Implies long-time commitment to the (minimalistic) package set shipped (even longer than the lifetime of a particular version). Fedora is bleeding edge, for adventurous users. "The kitchen sink and then some" is acceptable, as is "Oops, this didn't work out too well, let's try another approach/package in paralell/next time". > And I'm not really complaining about that. I think RHEL hits the target > exactly and I don't want it to change, but it's not a real recreational > desktop system, never was, never(?) will be. It's a server os and > possibly business 'productivity' desktop os. Yep. > Plus, by having an LTS release, it would encourage the value-add > packagers like livna and rpmforge to get on the bandwagon, and 'go long' > as well, so it would be possible to have a multimedia enabled system > that lasts more than 6 months. Fedora is about /freely distributable/ software, making it easier for "others" to give you the tools to break the law isn't in Fedora's charter (quite the contrary). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
