[rhelv6-beta-list] My first experiences with RHEL6 beta

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/18/2010 02:43 AM, Shelby, James wrote:
> I would say I'm very disappointed with RHEL6 in that it does not include or match Fedora 12 as I saw referenced.  If we are to use the RHEL6 Desktop in the enterprise we would expect that the enterprise features are actually included.  For example, I submitted this bug this morning which I later found was a duplicate.
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605240
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> Pidgin-sipe add the ability for Microsoft OCS. This is an easy to add rpm if we build it ourselves however it is in Fedora 12 but not in RHEL6.  The resolution is that it will not be included which I don't see deploying RHEL6 as it is missing key functionality for the enterprise.  If by default it is not included then how can RHEL6 Desktop really be a desktop when it is missing this?
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Fedora 12 has around 16000 components.  RHEL is going to be a much
smaller set but commercially supported and targeted subset with a longer
lifecycle. There are different tradeoffs obviously.    I expect
pidgin-sipe will be in the EPEL repository and if enough customers ask
for it, it might make it into the core product. 

Rahul