[fab] fedora slashdot interview

[Rahul]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 02:03 +0530, Rahul wrote:
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 14:59, Rahul wrote:
>>>> There is a question of better integration in existing products that goes
>>>> beyond Red Hat's upstream project involvement though. Random examples of
>>>> this are Network Manager being shipped enabled by default in various
>>>> other distributions while Fedora does not. Dogtail just got into Fedora
>>>> development tree yesterday. Sabayon is in Fedora Extras still.
>>> It really should not matter if these packages are on Core or Extras.  They are 
>>> available at install time and that is what matters.
>>>
>> It should not but it clearly does now. What we do later to nullify the 
>> differences doesnt change the current status of these repositories. Red 
>> Hat spend all the effort in creating a tool which has very low amount of 
>> visibility due to decision to provide it in Fedora Extras which is what 
>> I was pointing out.
> 
> That same decision, however, shows that Red Hat _is_ intending for
> Fedora to be a community driven distro.  It has other benefit IMHO.
> 

Disagree. Sabayon is part of GNOME which is the default desktop 
environment for Fedora Core and is very useful software. Red Hat 
developing it is just a additional factor.

Rahul