RE: [SSI-users] After RH9?!

[Walker, B. J <bru...@hp...>]

It's tough being in California - by the time I see a discussion thread
it has already gone thru a few exchanges.

My 2 cents:
   I encouraged us to do RH8/RH9 because I thought that would be the
most widely used distribution for the community and thus would satisfy
the most potential users.  Based on my conversations with Linus and
other Linux heavyweights, we need a strong grass roots user base to get
the hooks and capability into the base kernel.    I'm interested in any
avenue that accomplishes that.  I would love to have a Debian version
and a Suse version and Fedora, etc.  If one of those leads to adoption
by a distribution (Suse, Debian, etc.), I think that would greatly
enhance our chances of general open source adoption.  Doing RH9 wasn't
the best choice for getting a distribution to adopt but perhaps the best
choice for getting general user adoption.
   Where do we go from here?  I confess I don't know much about Fedora.
As we stablize the functionality outside the kernel, we need help
getting that functionality (mount/fstab work, init/rc/services,
installation, ...) working on other distributions.   I did get mail some
time ago from someone who had OpenSSI working on suse6.1.   I don't
think it will that big a deal and I would certain encourage and support
efforts to make OpenSSI install on other distributions.

bruce

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Kumar, Aneesh (Digital GlobalSoft)
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 7:19 AM
> To: Karl Vogel
> Cc: 'kva...@zk...'; 'ssi...@li...'
> Subject: Re: [SSI-users] After RH9?!
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> Karl Vogel wrote:
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> >Fedora Core is the playing ground for Redhat Enterprise=20
> releases (ie. A
> >new
> >RHEL is based on a certain Fedora Core release). So in that=20
> aspect, FC
> >seems
> >to be a possible target. My understanding of the FC project=20
> is that they
> >want community involvement and are willing to accept=20
> external patches.
> >So
> >maybe this also means that an integration of OpenSSI in FC is
> >possible/accepted.
> >
> >The problem with FC is that it is a fast moving target (new release
> >every 6
> >months), which might make development work on OpenSSI problematic?!
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> As of now yes. Fedora is a playing ground for REL. But in=20
> future. I am=20
> not sure. It will be very difficult for redhat to work so=20
> closely with=20
> the user community on a distribution project. Redhat simply won't be=20
> interested in investing the man power. But yes the core=20
> utilities will=20
> be maintained by redhat . I guess redhat will be using Fedora=20
> as a test=20
> bed for all the packages that they distribute in REL. That can also=20
> results in Fedora being incompatible with redhat in some=20
> configurations.=20
> Again one more important thing is fedora is a starting=20
> project. If they=20
> are looking for a community involvement like debian then it=20
> will simply=20
> be not possible easily. Anybody working with debian should be able to=20
> understand why. Lot of people working on a distribution=20
> project should=20
> have well defined rules regarding what files should go where. Debian=20
> have something like policy manuals. I am not sure fedora has=20
> something=20
> like that.=20
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> Again if i understand correctly the purpose of core developers of=20
> Openssi working on redhat branch was to get  openssi working=20
> smoothly on=20
> a distro that's supported by OEM vendors. I am not sure=20
> fedora will ever=20
> be supported by any of them.
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> Again if you certify that the app run on fedora i guess it will not=20
> guarantee that it will run the same way on REL. I guess=20
> redhat doesn't=20
> promise that. Or do they ?
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> -aneesh
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