Meeks: Linux on the (consumer) Desktop [LWN.net]

Meeks: Linux on the (consumer) Desktop

Posted Sep 13, 2012 23:06 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Meeks: Linux on the (consumer) Desktop by khim
Parent article: Meeks: Linux on the (consumer) Desktop

Just one more point here:

> Yes, they can. Because both facts are true. Fedora is perpetual alpha/beta of RHEL and RHEL is not developed in the open.

> But then “enterprise features” are added behind the closed doors. So Fedora users are used as free alpha/beta testers but never receive the end result which is developed in secrecy.

How are Fedora users being used as alpha/beta testers of the code that does not exist in Fedora (i.e. enterprise features that are added only to RHEL behind closed doors)? Or more specifically, how am I right now testing RHEL7 code that is not in my F-17 installation? I would really like to know by what magic this can be true.

Answer: I'm testing it, because it _has_ been added to Fedora.

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Meeks: Linux on the (consumer) Desktop

Posted Sep 14, 2012 12:20 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Answer: I'm testing it, because it _has_ been added to Fedora.

You have a point. Just… please remind me when exactly libsdp was added to Fedora? It's included in RHEL5 released half-decade ago.

Meeks: Linux on the (consumer) Desktop

Posted Sep 15, 2012 8:56 UTC (Sat) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

> Just… please remind me when exactly libsdp was added to Fedora?

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2005-Novemb...

> It's included in RHEL5 released half-decade ago.

And dropped from RHEL6 as well, because it was dropped from Fedora.

So, this is your big proof of secret development. A non-inclusion of an open source library for migration of existing apps - something you can compile and LD_PRELOAD yourself.