On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Les Mikesell wrote: > Would the initial decision to use RedHat as the base for e-smith have > been the same without access to the rawhide site and the ability to > see work in progress
Absolutely. Access to rawhide had absolutely nothing to do with the choice of RedHat as the distribution on which to base e-smith. Redhat was chosen: - for the obvious reason that it is the market leader - because we were familiar with RedHat - because the RPM package format is useful (despite various shortcomings) - because its installer (anaconda) already supported automated install configuration, and because it was GPL software. We do not have the time to watch RedHat rawhide to see where RedHat is headed. We base our product on RedHat versions which have already been tested in the field. We do on occasions look to rawhide to see if RedHat have already fixed problems that we have encountered, or have already packaged new versions of packages which we wish to use. -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Product Developer Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 592 5660 or 592 2122 Fax: +1 (613) 592 1175 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
