History Lesson (was Re: Python 3.0)
David G. Mackay
mackay_d at bellsouth.net
Wed Sep 5 00:10:45 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 17:35 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:01:36 -0500
> "David G. Mackay" <mackay_d at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > No. I was thinking specifically of FC1. Since all of the succeeding
> > Fedora releases build on each other, they are all, in that sense
> > derived from RHEL and RH9. Of course, you could claim that
> > everything for FC1 was conjured into existence independently, which
> > would give a whole new meaning to "installation wizard".
> >
>
> You have it wrong still. FC1 was literally RHL10 until the project
> name changed. It was not built on top of anything RHEL, it was built
> on top of RHL9. This thread has turned into a history lesson, and
> that's too bad, because we're no where near the original point of this
> topic.
OK. I suppose things like gfs, which did migrate from RHEL to the kernel,
and thus to Fedora are extremely rare. And yes, we've degenerated into discussing
semantics.
> > > Fedora doesn't have to be everything to every person. It doesn't
> > > have to solve all the problems. There are perfectly viable
> > > alternatives to Fedora, that are even based on Fedora, that solve
> > > some problem spaces that Fedora itself just isn't interested in.
> > > Duplication of effort is not fun for anybody.
> >
> > Oh, I don't know. Take a look at xen and kvm. Those of us that
> > aren't down in the trenches for those stand to win either way.
>
> Not the same duplication I was talking about, but oh well. You do
> bring up an interesting topic in Xen, in that what we have in Fedora
> for Xen is a very sad case of dragging something forward. xensource
> has no interest in tracking upstream kernel unlike Fedora, so we have
> to continually forward port their release to newer kernels. Not Fun.
> I wouldn't expect it to last for too many more releases (just my
> opinion, nothing of authority here).
May the best hypervisor win.
Dave
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