Fedora and mainstream redhat compatibility

[Darryl Luff]

Hi all,

I'm a bit confused about the direction the 'new', Redhat-sponsored 
Fedora linux is taking, compared to the 'old' Fedora linux.

The 'old' Fedora produced third party RPMS for use with the production 
Redhat releases (Redhat 9 etc). I package a lot of RPM's myself, and had 
just started to contribute to Fedora.

The 'new' Fedora is talking about being a seperate OS.

Will I still be able to use Fedora as a source of RPMS to use with the 
'standard' Redhat releases? Or do we now need yet another RPM repository 
to fill this need?

Thanks.

[Gerry Tool]

On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 07:33, Darryl Luff wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a bit confused about the direction the 'new', Redhat-sponsored 
> Fedora linux is taking, compared to the 'old' Fedora linux.
>
> The 'old' Fedora produced third party RPMS for use with the production 
> Redhat releases (Redhat 9 etc). I package a lot of RPM's myself, and had 
> just started to contribute to Fedora.
>
> The 'new' Fedora is talking about being a seperate OS.
>
> Will I still be able to use Fedora as a source of RPMS to use with the 
> 'standard' Redhat releases? Or do we now need yet another RPM repository 
> to fill this need?

You can find out all about it at

http://fedora.redhat.com/

Gerry

[Peter Boy]

Am So, den 12.10.2003 schrieb Darryl Luff um 14:33:
> I'm a bit confused about the direction the 'new', Redhat-sponsored 
> Fedora linux is taking, compared to the 'old' Fedora linux.

You will find all the details at http://fedora.redhat.com

As I understand it, the old Red Hat Linux is now fedora core with some
modifications regarding support, life cycle, ...  Currently the packages
are maintained by Red Hatters, just as before. In the future third party
maintainer may join the core project.

The old fedora project is now fedora contribute / extra with some
modifications regarding packages which may raise legal issues in the US.
These packages have been moved to servers located in the free part of
the world under a different name (again because of potential legal
issues in the US), one of them is  http://rpm.livna.org/

You may contribute to the new fedora contrib / extra or to one of the
external fedora repositories (depending on the legal status of the
software) just as you could before.

Peter