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[Brian Pitts]

On 02/17/2010 09:22 AM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Can someone run me through what the current situation is w.r.t. Red Hat 
> and Red-Hat-derived distributions and package repositories?  I am seeing 
> situations where people seem to go "RPM fishing" from the Internet's 
> hinterlands and others seem to have to add this or that repository to a 
> list in order to obtain such-and-such a package via yum.

RHEL provides (and hence supports) a relatively small number of packages.

# lsb_release -d && yum list all | wc -l
Description:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)
6476

Fedora provides a lot more.

$ lsb_release -d && yum list all | wc -l
Description:	Fedora release 12 (Constantine)
27151

There are various efforts to provide additional packages for RHEL.
There's a good overview on the CentOS wiki. [0]

Since Fedora has a stringent free software licensing policy (the only
non-free software allowed is firmware), their 27,000 packages exclude
some software that some people find useful. The main effort to provide
that software for Fedora is RPM Fusion. [1]

[0] http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
[1] http://rpmfusion.org/

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All the best,
Brian Pitts