Red Hat Users Invited To Test RHEL 5

[Paul Howarth]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 22:26 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>> RHEL probably would be too slimmed down for my usage at home.
>>
>> RHEL will include some packages that are in Fedora Extras; they'll just
>> be maintained (for the purposes of RHEL) by Red Hat staff instead of the
>> community members that maintain the packages in Extras.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> 
> It is good to know that RHEL will contain some programs that are in 
> Fedora-Extras. There are many programs migrated that would be missed 
> otherwise. My assumption without research was it was less than FC plus 
> extras. The last try I did with CentOS seemed to give me that impression.

Something else to bear in mind is that it's planned to have a 
community-maintained "Enterprise Extras" too, in time for RHEL5:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Enterprise
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-September/msg00232.html

Paul.