CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
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CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
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Re: CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
#2A bit more information in the official announcement:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-Janua...
"With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining the Red Hat family. The CentOS Project ( http://www.centos.org ) is joining forces with Red Hat. Working as part of the Open Source and Standards team ( http://community.redhat.com/ ) to foster rapid innovation beyond the platform into the next generation of emerging technologies. Working alongside the Fedora and RHEL ecosystems, we hope to further expand on the community offerings by providing a platform that is easily consumed, by other projects to promote their code while we maintain the established base."
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Re: CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
#3A bit more information in the official announcement: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-Janua... "With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining the Red Hat family. The CentOS Project ( http://www.centos.org ) is joining forces with Red Hat. Working as part of the Open Source and Standards team ( http://community.redhat.com/ ) to foster rapid innovation beyond the platform into the…
It appears the link has changed (used to be http://www.centos.org/about/governance/ ), so all is well but I wonder how.
Re: CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
#4A bit more information in the official announcement: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-Janua... "With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining the Red Hat family. The CentOS Project ( http://www.centos.org ) is joining forces with Red Hat. Working as part of the Open Source and Standards team ( http://community.redhat.com/ ) to foster rapid innovation beyond the platform into the…
Additional useful highlights:
> - Some of us now work for Red Hat, but not RHEL.
> - Red Hat is offering to sponsor some of the buildsystem and initial content delivery resources
> - Because we are now able to work with the Red Hat legal teams, some of the contraints that resulted in efforts like CentOS-QA being behind closed doors, now go away and we hope to have the entire build, test, and delivery chain open to anyone who wishes to come and join the effort.
> - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux to CentOS firewall will also remain. Members and contributors to the CentOS efforts are still isolated from the RHEL Groups inside Red Hat, with the only interface being srpm / source path tracking, no sooner than is considered released. In summary: we retain an upstream.
Re: CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
#5So, in general nothing much will change for users? Red Hat is introducing stability by employing core developers to work solely on CentOS and possibly streamlining changes between RHEL CentOS. Or, if you prefer to view it like that, Red Hat is exercising more direct control over CentOS.
Re: CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
#6I am not sure if i feel happy or not about this. I just hope they don't go the Fedora way on mangling, moving and changing everything around with every iteration.
I don't see what interest has RH into Centos except for trying to disrupt the base and push that way more businesses and customers to RH.
Maybe i'm just biased but Centos is doing pretty good in my opinion except maybe the late code changes and updates.
Re: CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
#7I really wish that, when RHEL/CentOS branches from Fedora to make a new release, they would also keep and provide a snapshot of Fedora's repository at that time, just like what Ubuntu does when they sync with Debian Sid (i.e.: packages in 'main' and 'restricted' repos are supported, all other packages in the Debian archive are imported and made available in 'universe' and 'multiverse' repository for your convenience).
That would work a long way to make CentOS a viable Linux distribution for everyday use. In my experience, EPEL isn't enough and rebuilding packages seems like a wasted effort since they were there when they branched off to prep a new release.
Add a somewhat predictable release schedule on top of that (again, in my opinion Ubuntu hit the sweet spot with 24 months here) and that would be the icing on the cake. Heck, RHEL 6 was first released in 2010 and there's still Python 2.6 on that!
I know that I could shut up and use Ubuntu (I do), it's just that I like RedHat way more than Canonical but they don't make it easy for me to use and love their products (speaking as a former Fedora user and contributor).
Re: CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
#8I see this as RH not wanting competition and/or wanting to somehow control CentOS. It's no wonder, honestly, that Debian is gaining in popularity as they are the last of the main Linux distros who control their own destiny. I feel very awkward about this news.
Re: CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
#9A bit more information in the official announcement: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-Janua... "With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining the Red Hat family. The CentOS Project ( http://www.centos.org ) is joining forces with Red Hat. Working as part of the Open Source and Standards team ( http://community.redhat.com/ ) to foster rapid innovation beyond the platform into the…
And some more here http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/#_centos
Re: CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
#10I am not sure if i feel happy or not about this. I just hope they don't go the Fedora way on mangling, moving and changing everything around with every iteration. I don't see what interest has RH into Centos except for trying to disrupt the base and push that way more businesses and customers to RH. Maybe i'm just biased but Centos is doing pretty good in my opinion except maybe the late code changes and updates.
They wont change much around, I think. CentOS is a clone of RHEL and there's very little that changes around in RHEL.