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280 Part III . Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution Software in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 matched almost exactly the same packages that were in Fedora Core 1. The same is expected to be true with Fedora Core 3 software when Red Hat completes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. As for including the Fedora community in Fedora development, Red Hat states on the Fedora home page: Red Hat will retain editorial control over Fedora Core but will explicitly include external developers in the process of making technical decisions that align with our project objectives. This is an evolutionary, not revolutionary change; by depending on and contributing to Open Source software since the inception of Red Hat Linux, Red Hat has always shared control over the software with external developers. Red Hat will now more explicitly share control for packaging with external developers in our new project: The Fedora Project. Although there is no formal procedure in place as of this writing, Red Hat has stated that it expects to give people outside Red Hat more substantial roles in Fedora planning and development process based on how well they contribute to the community: For more information on the objectives of the Fedora Project, go to http:// fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html. Listening to the Red Hat Community As you might guess, the community of people who have hitched their wagons to the Red Hat train had some concerns about the Fedora/RHEL split. Some of the biggest concerns of the community are summed up by the following questions: . Is Fedora a real Linux distribution? Fedora has been set up as a project for shaking bugs out of software before that software goes into Red Hat s commercial Linux products. Red Hat has gone to great lengths to make sure people know that Red Hat is not guaranteeing or supporting Fedora. If that s the case, why should Red Hat care if Fedora is a fully integrated distribution once the parts it needs are close enough to start putting into RHEL? . Who controls Fedora? Right now, Red Hat is calling all the shots when it comes to features, schedules, and other critical parts of Fedora. Although Red Hat claims it will allow more community involvement in critical parts of the project, so far it has not. Why should the community support a Linux system over which it has no control? The funny thing is that despite the confusing and frustrating aspects of the transition, many, many people in the open source community are still supporting the Fedora effort. I think that really is an indication of how well-regarded Red Hat s contributions to open source have been. The company is still trusted (somewhat) to offer some real value to the open source community as it also pursues its own commercial agenda.
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