Re: [Saudi Linux] RH Linux became to an end!! RH

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

Yeah my feeling is also that RH was/is a very good distro and we will
have nearly all the positive things with fedora, don't forget that the
RH programmers will work on it so we will have the skills anyway.
And as I read once in the slashdot threads, the idea of someone not part
of RH sending a patch which would be accepted by the fedora ppl is far
more interesting then a RH project which ONLY accepts patches from
employees at the company...Seems to me a "far open sourcer" effort then
RH distros became!!!

Am Sam, 2003-11-08 um 00.40 schrieb Ossama Khayat:
> --- Yaser Al-Jarbou <jarbouym at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> > I wonder why arabeyes.org can't build their own
> > distribution of linux since they have done a great
> > job
> > in arabizaion.
> > 
> > people of arabeye.org, I think you have start
> > thinking
> > about that.
> 
> I totally agree with Maher, Arafat and Nadim on this
> point. There are _more_ important matters we could
> look at. Also, Haydar Linux is there, and maybe you
> can participate if you're interested :)
> 
> Also, just my 2c on RedHat/Fedora thing.
> Though RH stopped their _free_ linux distro but still
> "The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and
> community-supported open source project.", as the
> first line on the website says.
> 
> Personally, I don't see much difference between what
> was before and now! I mean, you still can download the
> the .iso images and/or source packages. Even for the
> RH Enterprise server, you can download the source RPMS
> _free_, create .iso images, install it, and voila! you
> have an Enterprise server. You just have to maintain
> the updates yourself, though _all_ manuals of RH are
> available, again free!, which I see a much better and
> organized documentation that any other distro.
> 
> General things that I really like about RH are:
>   - Excellent installation tool.
>   - Update via up2date, which no more requires RHN
>     registration. Also, support for using YUM repos as
>     well as apt ones.
>   - Graphical (and CLI) tools available for system
>     config (e.g.
>     DNS, Apache, Samba.. etc)
>   - Addition of NPTL kernel for better performance,
>     support for laptops.
> .. and many other things that I just can't remember
> now.
> 
> All in all, this is just my experience with RH, though
> I would share it for benefit :)
> 
> regards,
> Ossama Khayat
> 
> 
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