On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 14:56 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 13.10.2008 14:18, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 11:35 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > Perhaps I've been inattentive; if so then I apologise. But could someone > > please state for the record precisely what they want when they ask for > > 'Fedora LTS', that CentOS doesn't provide? > > Sounds stupid, but afaics it's just two: > > (1) having Fedora in the name. * CentOS/RHEL often are outdated in details, even in comparison with older Fedoras. * RHEL being non-free. > (2) having all the package available that are Fedora and Add-On repos ship * Right, there is a huge gap between the packages being shipped by RHEL +EPEL and those of Fedora. > "1" sounds stupid, but afaics it's really a big problem for a lot of > people. They simply view CentOS as something completely different, which > it IMHO not really is. I disagree, CentOS and Fedora are completely different, e.g. on the "project control/management" side, target-audience wise and feature-wise. > Maybe Fedora and CentOS should merge? Yes, this would be an improvement. > Or maybe > RH should simply start to distribute the RHEL bits freely. And this would be an even better alternative, but it's not that I would expect this to ever happen. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
