Shawn Walker wrote:
I'm just going to have to disagree in general.
Maintaining software is expensive, especially lots of software.
Your belief seems to be that Sun should support the cost of the
distribution by themselves, that if the community doesn't provide it,
Sun has to, and that you
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Guido Berhoerster
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Shawn Walker wrote:
I'm just going to have to disagree in general.
Maintaining software is expensive, especially lots of software.
Your belief seems to be that Sun should support the cost of the
distribution by
What's the situation regarding SXCE and the new 2008.05 and future releases?
My understanding from what I've seen is that SXCE is a release made
approximately every 2 weeks, and is based on the Nevada project.
Again, my understanding of the 2008.05 release is that:
1. this will be released only
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Simon Breden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the situation regarding SXCE and the new 2008.05 and future releases?
My understanding from what I've seen is that SXCE is a release made
approximately every 2 weeks, and is based on the Nevada project.
Again, my
Shawn Walker wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Simon Breden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My understanding from what I've seen is that SXCE is a release made
approximately every 2 weeks, and is based on the Nevada project.
Again, my understanding of the 2008.05 release is that:
1. this will
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Guido Berhoerster
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Shawn Walker wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Simon Breden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My understanding from what I've seen is that SXCE is a release made
approximately every 2 weeks, and is based on the Nevada
Shawn Walker wrote:
*If* that is what Sun chooses to do, it would essentially be the same
thing RedHat does with Fedora, and I think it would be quite fair.
I suspect we'll find out more on May 13th.
That would be a major disappointment to me, as I had hoped more from
a community effort.
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Guido Berhoerster
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Shawn Walker wrote:
*If* that is what Sun chooses to do, it would essentially be the same
thing RedHat does with Fedora, and I think it would be quite fair.
I suspect we'll find out more on May 13th.
That would be
Shawn Walker wrote:
No, CentOS only exists because RedHat was extremely restrictive about
any usage of their trademark. The CentOS folks weren't even allowed to
reference the fact that their packages came from RedHat Enterprise
Linux.
The other difference is that, thanks to ips, it is
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Guido Berhoerster
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Shawn Walker wrote:
No, CentOS only exists because RedHat was extremely restrictive about
any usage of their trademark. The CentOS folks weren't even allowed to
reference the fact that their packages came from RedHat
Shawn Walker wrote:
As such, should there be no security fixes only repository provided
by Sun, community members can certainly provide one and users can
simply add that to their configuration.
That was all I meant.
Debian and Fedora both rely upon community members to supply most of
their
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Guido Berhoerster
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I never said Sun has to provide it, but that Sun will apparently provide it
only to paying customers is disappointing for me and seems inconsequent
given the fact that they are trying to attract Linux developers (who
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