Red Hat Inc. joined the growing number of server makers and Linux distributors that are offering some sort of financial protection for its customers against legal action by the SCO Group last week prior to LinuxWorld. In this interview, Red Hat vice president of engineering Brian M. Stevens talked to SearchEnterpriseLinux.com about the distributor’s new Open Source Assurance program, the addition of a server provisioning module to its Red Hat Network, the 2.6 kernel and the SCO lawsuit.
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Cool interview, and some good points.
But he doesn’t talk about fedora i any way, and their RHEL 4 will be based on Fedora Core 2 or 3 probably….
Anyway, looks like it didn’t generate allot of interest.
Just my $0.02
From what I understood from the mailing lists (I dont have the patiance to find the post), not all the new feature from the 2.6 kernel will be in FC2 (and if RHEL4 is based on FC2 then in RHEL4 as well) due to them not being ready enough (this was stated in the interview, but it wasn’t really said directly, and we dont know when the interview really happened).
This means that users using FC2 (and maybe RHEL4) will not see that much difference between the new kernel and the old one, since many of the things that will remain in the new kernel were already backported in 2.4. so you already had them!
This is why I love this company, and will probably continue using them for a long time!
Nobody here gave a damn about this article… RedHat is slowly becomming invisible to the Linux comunity and Fedora becomes like Debian, a lot of people use it, but almost nobody talks about it.
Oh well, that’s life…
Wouldn’t surprise me to see commercials on TV in the future with RHEL…hahahahaha