Redhat summit roundup
Chris Blizzard has a very useful post up summarizing the announcements made at the recent Redhat Summit. I’ve been following this but still missed some cool stuff like Redhat Exchange.
The basic idea behind RH Exchange seems to be that you download RHEL with third-party applications already installed and ready to go. I notice that Alfresco are already a partner; this is interesting since a colleague of mine just spent a couple of days trying to get Alfresco up and running on Fedora Core 6. Alfresco uses OpenOffice for document format conversions, and Oo was the component that put up the most resistance during the installation process. I think it would have been better to just give Redhat money and avoid the hassle.
No doubt there are very good reasons for it, but it’s mildly amusing that Redhat are going to write some Windows drivers to take advantage of RHEL’s paravirtualization features. Hopefully the guys writing these won’t get teased too much by the other Redhat developers.
