Red Hat Users Invited To Test RHEL 5

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 22:26 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> I was interested in the information from all that posted links and such 
> to the different messages on lists which most are probably not 
> subscribed to. I wondered about the availability to get the beta and the 
> link William supplied answered that question.
> 
> Excerpt;
> Accessing the Software
> ----------------------
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 is made available to existing Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux subscribers via RHN.
> 
> So I guess I'll make do with Fedora and hope the software and 
> preferences that I like are still an interest to include within RHEL. 
> not for the sake of RHEL, but as a Fedora user. Quite a few of my 
> favorite applications migrated from Fedora Core into Fedora-Extras, sor 
> RHEL probably would be too slimmed down for my usage at home.

RHEL will include some packages that are in Fedora Extras; they'll just
be maintained (for the purposes of RHEL) by Red Hat staff instead of the
community members that maintain the packages in Extras.

Paul.