FPL steps down: what's the real story?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 18:45 -0700, suvayu ali wrote:
> On 1 April 2010 15:35, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:13 -0700, suvayu ali wrote:
> >> On 1 April 2010 14:46, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> >> > Red Hat is a different company, has their own mail lists, their own
> >> > software packaging, etc. This has nothing to do with Fedora.
> >> >
> >>
> >> And I recently learned they don't even use yum! :-o
> > ----
> > well RHEL 4 doesn't but RHEL 5 does.
> >
> > You can install yum from CentOS 4 on RHEL 4 systems but you have to be
> > vigilant about where packages are being installed from because RHEL 4
> > doesn't have repo information for yum.
> >
> 
> Thanks for correcting me. :) Learned something new again! I deal with
> Scientific Linux 4 and 5 systems on a regular basis, hence my surprise
> about this piece of information. Any particular reason for this
> difference?
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Scientific Linux does pretty much the same as CentOS and they all seemed
to follow the path of the progenitor, whiteboxlinux. The RHEL releases
prior to version 5 simply used the 'up2date' tool which has a vastly
different structure than yum's repo structure. Whiteboxlinux and the
various rebuilds of RHEL used the yum tool I suppose because it was
pretty well established (Fedora and the RHL that preceded Fedora) had
been using it for some time. I think Red Hat probably decided that the
open source development of yum made more long term sense and implemented
in RHEL 5 instead of another round of 'up2date'.
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> PS: I know my questions are probably OT, but its better than a flame
> war on a vaguely relevant thread. ;)
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no flame wars... just reactions to someone who wants to use this list as
a political soapbox for his theories on the way things should be. Not
the first and obviously won't be the last. Maybe if he actually
participated in the process of software development, either by coding or
bug reporting he would begin to understand what is actually involved and
transition from irrelevant theory to relevant discourse.

Craig


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