On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:45:48AM +0900, javajunkie wrote:
. Instead, take a look at CentOS. The new CentOS release due out in a month or so is based on Fedora Core 6 and will be supported for almost a decade.
Hmm, it's not based on FC6 but rather RHEL5.
Yes, and RHEL5 is based on FC6. Judging from the beta, *very* based-on.
As for the seemingly suspicious view of CentOS, they would argue they are actually helping.
Definitely.
For instance, in the new RHEL5 beta, redhat is said to "take .fc6 stuff as is and used it (not necessarily compiled on their el5 builder" (quote from the centos list). CentOS is trying to put a beta together with everything compiled on the el5 builder and of course finding things that need to be done to do that.
Exactly.
I can't say in actuality if the information they are turning up is working it's way back to RH (in bug reports or whatever), but some people suggest it is and that such info will be eventually needed to turn out a final RHEL5.
Yes, there are bugs filed with Red Hat's bugzilla.