Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Barry K. Nathan
2005-03-03T10:04:01Z

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:51:13AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> it's actually not. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is magical in that you get
> actual support for it (in various degrees, depending on for what level
> you want to pay). That is what sets it appart, not the actual bits.

IMO the bits are also magical, insofar as they get treated differently
(e.g. RHEL kernels always get backports whereas Fedora ones often get
updated altogether). If the bits weren't magical then I think people
would simply run Fedora Core instead of creating RHEL rebuild projects.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>