[Wylug-discuss] redhat fedora

[Nigel Metheringham]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 15:33, kai.che at ntlworld.com wrote:
> what is the diffrence between redhat linux and fedora? a frind of mine
> said farsi language support is only available in in fedora. any
> comments please.

Red Hat Linux is dead.  There will be no further releases, and
support/updates  ceases for 7.3/8.0 at the end of the year, with
support+updates ceasing for 9 at the end of April.

Red Hat will happily sell you Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in various
flavours, which features a more considered development pace, bundled
support and updates, and a significant price tag.  Binary distributions
of RHEL are not encouraged.

The Fedora Project (note there is no Red Hat in the title) is a project,
initially staffed mainly by Red Hat staff and partially resourced by Red
Hat.  Fedora Core will be a linux distribution continuing in the vein of
the old Red Hat Linux distribution.   It will have freely available
downloadable distribution sets and updates.  Updates will cease quite
quickly after the next release - however the Fedora Legacy project
intends to provide some further set of errata support - not clear on how
that works.

I see no signs of farsi translations in the Servern (Fedora Core beta)
package list.  However basic language support should work in any recent
distro unless there is some special feature of the language that I am
missing.

	Nigel.
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