Re: red hat and fedora

Colin Charles <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.beijing
Organization ByteBot.net
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 14:08 +0800, Richard Ford wrote:

> REDHAT IS FEDORA!

Redhat + Community is fedora
(though lots of Red Hat devels tend to run fedora)

> Fedora is OWNED BY REDHAT

Thats generally true

> The ONLY difference between RH and FEDORA is that with RHLinux, Red
> hat decided the development path.  Now with FEDORA the communityhas a
> greater input.

Well, even then, its waning. We really have to work on our community
process, but here's a little fruit:

http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/wiki/index.cgi/Wishlist

Lots of the community tend to come up with insane ideas, which is a
major issue. They're just not clued in

> Fedora is then turned into RedHat Linux as it goes down the
> "development" path.

Yes, thats been no secret. For every 3 releases of Fedora Core, with all
the nice new stuff that we with new hardware just love, one release of
RHEL will come out

> FEDORA is RED HAT's community project.

No lie there, its been stated as such

> > as for Fedora, it's not a product of RH, so anybody can sell it to
> > anyone who don't have broadband connection.

As long as they follow:
	http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/

> > > > ON the box there is still the red hat logo and some reference to red
> > > > hat.

Very unwise
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