What started as an effort to package software not included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux has grown to be the most interesting part of Fedora for some ISVs. Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, or EPEL, is not a mass rebuild of all Fedora software for Enterprise Linux. It is a disciplined set of packages with a maintenance philosophy that aligns with Enterprise Linux.
Today I am presenting at the Red Hat Summit in Boston on the topic of “Fedora Packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux”. This article is derived from that talk. » Read more
Starting off this year’s Red Hat Summit was a triplet of keynotes: a Red Hat leader (CEO Jim Whitehurst), a Red Hat partner (Jim Stallings of IBM), and an open culture visionary (Dr. John Halmaka, CIO of Harvard Medical School.) This ordering of keynotes is representative of how the Red Hat commmunity is structured–a balance between enterprise and open communities, with Red Hat in the lead. (These keynotes will be available in their entirety from the Red Hat Summit page.) » Read more
