Sad for us RH users, but hey there's Debian! 

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 16:39, Rick Moen wrote:
> 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.


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