Root login in rawhide and display managers
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Sep 20 13:53:11 UTC 2007
Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 06:52:02PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Sure there is. Update policies, lifecycle etc. What applies to RHEL does
>> not necessarily apply to Fedora and vice versa. There are many technical
>
> I use fedora rawhide and centos 4/5, and I don't see many differences,
> except of course for the 2 items you mentioned above.
These two are very significant technical differences.
>> solutions that are done on a routine basis in RHEL that are completely
>> infeasible in Fedora.
>
> An example?
Majority of updates are backported patches to maintain ABI compatibility.
> At least there is openmotif. But openmotif, even if it is not OSI
> compatible is not that non free.
This is just a side effect of Fedora having it when RHEL 5 was branched
and doesn't really make RHEL non-free.
Rahul
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