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Red Hat Trying to Make Fedora More Open?
Chillybott writes "CNET reports that Red Hat is trying to bolster more support for the Fedora project by giving the users more control over and input into the development process. The article states that they have made their CVS repositories visible and hints that soon members of the Fedora community will be able to act as distribution maintainers.
Seems like a good idea to me, although their choice of acronyms for their conference leaves something to be desired."
The gnome applet is actually using yum.
The 'redhat network' is for enterprise customers only.
Cheers Koz
That's just *not* going to happen, Thomson charges $5 per 'unit'. If the mp3 rpms were on the installation CD, I'd imagine that redhat would be liable for that fee. Even if only non-americans installed it.
Besides, http://rpm.livna.org is your friend.
Cheers Koz
After trying Core 1 and 2, I switched to SUSE and never looked back. I've heard Core 3 isn't as full of bugs as the first 2 were but...I like SUSE now. Things *just work* compared to Fedora. Plus the whole distribution seems more polished and unified. Also, it's much easier to buy SUSE 9.2 Professional at Fry's for my desktop and even a server or two and buy enterprise level support for it if I need to (haven't yet). Much easier to justify to management. But Fedora has its place. I'm just curious to see if SUSE will start catching on with corporate America. I'm doing my best at my company. One more thing...compare SUSE 9.2 Porfessional to Redhat WS. Significant difference on price.
This guy is way out there
First of all, nobody *must* unite.
Having said that, I think it is highly unlikely that RedHat adopts anything or will contribute anything publicly and specifically to Gentoo's idea of a distro. They are in the enterprise server/workstation distro and service business, not in the "tweak and compile your distro so that it becomes unmaintainable for the enterprise market" business.
As a company in RedHat's position, I would do everything but associate my products with Gentoo, which in the enterprise market can be viewed as useless. Remember that time is money and stability everything.
That doesn't mean that I don't like Gentoo, but the community driven distro that comes closest to what you want in the enterprise market, is Debian.
I feel so sig.
As my first recommendation, I would like to use the cluestick(TM) on clueless people like you who forget that even though they don't live in the US, REDHAT IS and could still be held legally responsible.
Use yer' noggin!
Besides that, RedHat is committed to Open Source software, and based on the GPL you cannot legally place any MP3 related code under the GPL.
The Fedora CVS is available at http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/. Lots of goodies there!
Am i the only one who thinks this is a response to the recent success that Ubuntu has had?
Yes. Fedora was planned to be open from day 1.
Hahaha, that makes it doubly funny for Mexicans, since FUD is also a well-known mark of minced meat.
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That would be the same bug that occured for all distors using an early 2.6.kernel and partitioning code based on Parted. (e.g. SuSE 9.1) A clear write up of this problem in case someone is still suffering from it and it's solution is provided by Jef Spaleta here