Actually just kidding, but I find the recent announcement from RedHat on
the merging of the RedHat Linux Project and the Fedora Linux project to
be very interesting and exciting.  It appears that this merger is going
to produce a very exciting meta distro a lot like debian.  No more do we
have to complain about redhat not shipping package x.  Now we can have a
whole debian-like metarpository of compatible packages.  I expect
freshrpms to begin converting their packages to be fedora compatible.  

I presume RedHat will use the fedora core packages to build their
enterprise RedHat Linux and sell it as they always have, but the
end-user RedHat Linux is going to become more like best that debian has
to offer.  Complete with apt-get.

Of course the catch here is that RedHat is only going to support
Enterprise RedHat Linux.  So this is a money-making move on their part,
but as a RedHat user who supports myself, like most debian users, I see
this as a good move.

Michael
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