Kenneth Gonsalves (a dear friend) writes “Its however annoying to note that neither Redhat nor Novell who are the major suppliers of linux to the government have bothered to implement the remington keyboard. “. This is not a complete picture of things. The upcoming FC6 has Remington keyboard maps included which would be not all that hard to be released for FC5 as an update so you do get the stuff. But this would be possible only if you are using SCIM as your input method magic. The issue here is related to the perception that Red Hat can (and should) package everything under the sun in a standard enterprise class distribution. To put it bluntly we do not. Unless code is upstream and accepted by upstream maintainers it would be foolhardy to end up maintaining a fork of something that might become very specific to us. Might just be because of the mindshare we have or perhaps because of the “with great power comes great responsibility” bit, but the public perception of Red Hat supplying a panacea to all ills is scary and a slippery slope.