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* CentOS/RHEL often are outdated in details, even in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