[CentOS] Re: Demonizing generic Linux issues as Fedora Core-only issues -- WAS: Hi, Bryan

[Johnny Hughes]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 09:43 -0500, Bryan J. Smith  wrote:

> If you don't like what does or doesn't go into RHEL/CentOS, then you
> need to get involved with Fedora Core and make a case of what should.
> And one way to do that is to donate time.  Because if it's not proven
> in Fedora Core to Red Hat's tastes, it doesn't go into RHEL/CentOS.
> 
> So the most effective way you can influence RHEL, and therefore
> CentOS, is to get involved with Fedora Core.  Red Hat is _not_ going
> to "force" something that it can't get to work with Fedora Core into
> RHEL arbitrarily.  So if you don't see something in RHEL/CentOS as
> standard, you need to see why it didn't make it into Fedora Core.
> 

Agreed that getting stuff into FC is the way to get them tested and into
RHEL proper ... then they will be standard in the base CentOS product.

<snip>
> Again, the people who actually _pay_ for RHEL/SLES are _not_ paying for
> features.  ;->
> 

Agreed ... RHEL is not the place for experimentation, only well working
and proven things should go in there.  Which is why I think SELinux is a
little premature in this version RHEL.

<snip>
> If you want the most features, then Fedora Core + { FE+Lorg, DAG,
> etc...} is your baby, maybe CentOS + additives if you don't mind
> waiting a year later.

This is not really true. We will probably never have everything that FC
has as added features ... but CentOS-4 has several added features and we
have been out for only a 3 months (so, not required to wait a year).  We
even have some features (mysql compiled postfix, NX/freeNX, and soon
MySQL-Administrator / MySQL-Query Builder) that are not yet part of FC
or FC Extras at all.
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