How code makes it into Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Ever wonder how great features make it from the community into enterprise-ready technology like Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linu(R)?

Fedora Project Leader Paul Friends explains how projects started upstream gain in popularity and maturity, are hardened and tested, and eventually make their way to enterprise solutions.

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http://fedoraproject.org/

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[TheSniperofDeath]

this is like Novell and openSUSE XD

[lordmetroid]

No not really... Someday I will install another distribution on the laptop to see how it turns out.

[Arkblu]

Did you check to make sure that they are using more recent kernel? If the drivers were added in a later update, that maybe why it works with one distribution, and not the other.

[lordmetroid]

What I mainly think of is that the function keys on my laptop has generally not worked out of the box with any distributions I have tried but Ubuntu.

I love a lot of other distributions but I run Ubuntu on my laptop just because it works as a whole better without any manual configurations than the other distributions I have tried.

[Arkblu]

Again, like what? Most distributions get their hardware detection method from Knoppix, hal already mounts devices for you, and synaptic tracks dependencies for you. None of that is anything unique to Ubuntu. Admit it, you are just repeating what someone else told you.

[lordmetroid]

I am not sure but things just seem to work with less configuration on Ubuntu than on other distributions.

[Arkblu]

Like what?

[lordmetroid]

I think it is a focus on automagic features...

[Arkblu]

What are Ubuntu's goals? I would imagine they don't have any real goals, since they can't seem to follow their own philosophy.

[lordmetroid]

Why would Ubuntu do that, it is not part of the goals that are set up for the Ubuntu distribution.