On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 19:01, seth vidal wrote: > > the Red Hat Linux line is now considered for "home users and hobbyists" > according to the info on the webpage. > Red Hat Enterprise Linux is for production/server/etc use. > So why shouldn't devel of RHL be more influenced by the demands of the > end user - the hobbyist - the more common OSS developer? > Red Hat won't gain much revenue from the hobbyist user in RHL anyway - > at least not through up2date/rhn. So why not include a third party > updater? Duh. Because then people will start using that freeware gizmo on the enterprise thing, and will stop paying big money for the Satellite or whatever it's called... > it also would mean the following: > 1. less bandwidth used by the demo rhn/up2date users > 2. easier load distribution over mirrors (newer versions of yum will be > supporting neat mirroring/failover things) I fully agree. Yet i don't see it happening. -- Florin Andrei "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
