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Red Hat Begins Testing Core 5

Posted by Zonk on from the new-toys dept.

Robert wrote to mention a CBR Online article which reports that Red Hat has begun testing on Fedora Core 5. From the article: "The next version of Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat's enterprise Linux distribution is not scheduled for release until the second half of 2006 but will include stateless Linux and Xen virtualization functionality and improved management capabilities. Fedora Core 5 Release 1 includes updated support for XenSource Inc's open source server virtualization software, as well as new versions of the Gnome and KDE user interfaces, and the final version of the OpenOffice.org application suite."

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  1. Re:Congrats Fedora Core Team! by killjoe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "But, all of a sudden, out of the blue, RedHat announced "no more free linux from us". Then, they released RHEL, and it was a couple of months before they announced Fedora Core was coming out. RHEL pricing is completely insane."

    All they said was that they wer eno longer interested in trying to support mom and pop with redhat. There is nothing wrong with that. They didn't take anything away from you, you still have fedora core.

    If you want EL without paying for it there is centos and others too.

    Red Hat is in the support business. When you pay for RHEL you are paying for support and in order for them to deliver credible support they have to have a known good quantity to support. RHEL is simply a support package against a known good snapshot of Fedora Core.

    By the way if you think that when you buy windows XP MS will answer all your questions for five years you are in for a big surprise.

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  2. 100% FUD by bani · · Score: 3, Insightful
    strange, I work at an ISP and we've had used exclusively redhat, from RH5 all the way to FC4 without problems.

    For one: I keep hearing people say that redhat contributes "Millions" to the open source community. Where?


    http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/ http://sources.redhat.com/redboot/ http://sourceware.org/jffs2/ http://cygwin.com/ http://people.redhat.com/mingo/exec-shield/ http://sourceware.org/insight/ http://sourceware.org/cluster/ http://sourceware.org/systemtap/

    and don't forget ext3 is largely bankrolled by redhat.

    there's lots more. just because you're unaware of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

    And is it significant compared to the return they get on it?


    why don't you ask them?

    Are they only doing it because it benifits them?


    why don't you ask them?

    I know they pay the salaries of several people who are "RedHat employees", but really just kernel hack, but Millions?


    yes. sure, redhat employs kernel devs like alan, ingo and arjen. redhat also pays to employ gcc and gdb developers. and others.

    Really?


    yep.

    For two: They DIDN'T EVEN WRITE THEIR DAMN SOFTWARE.


    really? who wrote rpm then? should you not then lambast mandrake and suse for using rpm, because they didn't write it?

    sure there are legitimate gripes about fedora. that's no reason to make stuff up.