Make a periphery around the Core

[Andy Green]

On Sunday 21 August 2005 20:07, Steve Bergman wrote:

> What I keep hearing in this thread is that RedHat's position as the
> "managing entity" of Fedora is holding Fedora back in the area of
> multimedia.

Redhat being well-funded brings into being the potential for attacks that 
would otherwise make no sense if it were someone else distributing Fedora.  
So it seems to me reasonable they keep completely away from anything inviting 
attack.

If Redhat want commercial 'should-really-be-licensed' stuff for Enterprise 
they license it and it is distributed and paid-for accordingly.  So there is 
no real driver on Redhat to fix this for Fedora from the commercial side.  
Not moaning about it, just noting it.

But of course the development and strong security update work make Fedora 
attractive to rely on.  It always seemed to me that the "Core" part of the 
name invited the distribution to be built on externally, completely away from 
Redhat, not in competition but in using Fedora as the 'upstream'.  And what 
do I read about on LWN....

http://www.blagblagblag.org/

''blag is a fedora core 3 based distribution, reduced to 1 cdrom and 
supplemented by 200 additional packages.''

The 200 additional packages include mplayer and all the other goodies that 
become explosive when mixed directly with Redhat's funding.  (I have no 
experience or relationship with blag).

So it seems to me the answer to this should be that Redhat go on as they need 
to and the demand for the other stuff supports one or more wrapped Fedoras 
that have it, completely outside Redhat and with no support from them other 
than the general provisioning of Fedora Core.

-Andy
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