Quoting Justin Jon L. Jereza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > the way i see it, Fedora looks like the RH version of Debian Testing > with Rawhide as the RH equivalent of Debian Sid.
Good analogy. But: > ...or Fedora is just the department name for their open source > development section. in that case, yes, it's not a distro, it's a > department. if you'll look at their history, it seems that all the RH > distros are under the Fedora project starting from day one of RH. Not exactly. The Fedora Project was an actual, _non-RH, Inc._-based community project operated by Warren Togami. Togami was working to improve and extend the work of the FreshRPMs respository used with the apt-rpm port, by proposing to form a Debian-like community around apt-rpm and community-maintained packages designed for an RH-structured system. Article: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1536205&tid=23 When Red Hat, Inc. decided to turn over its regular distribution to the open-source community and concentrate its corporate resources on RHEL, it decided to do the former by merging its new Red Hat Linux Project with Togami's Fedora Project. Article: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/01/1417208&mode=thread&tid=51 The result of that merger is the current Fedora Project, hosted at http://fedora.redhat.com/ . > It's also not exactly just a collection of projects but it does > release a distro. it does have the ISO of the next upcoming version, > codenamed Severn. When last I checked, they had in fact released beta3 of Severn. My understanding is that it merges some of Togami's group's work into the prior Severn betas. Those earlier betas emerged from Red hat prior to all of these "community" decisions. As things stand, the result will _not_ be called "Red Hat 10", nor will it be offered in a boxed set (with or without support) by Red Hat, Inc. In order to protect its brand identity, Red Hat, Inc. will try to ensure that the name "Red Hat" gets used (from this point on) solely in connection to its RHEL product line, and never in relation to the Fedora distribution. -- Cheers, Founding member of the Hyphenation Society, a grassroots-based, Rick Moen not-for-profit, locally-owned-and-operated, cooperatively-managed, [EMAIL PROTECTED] modern-American-English-usage-improvement association. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
