Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-28 Thread Phil Perry
On 28/04/2021 23:28, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Apr 27, 2021, at 11:32, Johnny Hughes wrote: You would be hard pressed to find many FUNCTIONAL differences between Stream and CentOS Linux // just as you would be hard pressed to find many differences between RHEL 8.2 and RHEL 8.3, for example.

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-28 Thread Jonathan Billings
> On Apr 27, 2021, at 11:32, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > You would be hard pressed to find many FUNCTIONAL differences between > Stream and CentOS Linux // just as you would be hard pressed to find > many differences between RHEL 8.2 and RHEL 8.3, for example. > > Are there some differences?

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-28 Thread R C
I think the budget needed would be in the millions, 10's of millions...  that is hard to do with a gofundme page or a bake sale on an annual basis.  if it only was a 100k or couple of 100k,  IBM and others wouldn't care to keep it going I think, besides funding, there were organizational

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-28 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 28/4/2021 4:28 μ.μ., R C wrote: you think you can fund something like that with a bake sale or so?, maintaining a separate distro for the same thing is VERY expensive I agree, of course, yet it seems that those who decide to maintain a separate distro are decided to do so and obviously

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-28 Thread Christopher Wensink
Speaking of financing, it's common for non-profits such as churches and other organizations to have an annual budget review that is put together to lay out the budget, and expenses to see how each cost is broken down. Is there an equivalent budget page that annual review of expenses for

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-28 Thread R C
you think you can fund something like that with a bake sale or so?, maintaining a separate distro for the same thing is VERY expensive On 4/28/21 2:08 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: On 28/4/2021 10:35 π.μ., Nikolaos Milas wrote: All that, in turn, are very much dependent on community involvement

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 04:09, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > On 28/4/2021 10:35 π.μ., Nikolaos Milas wrote: > > > All that, in turn, are very much dependent on community involvement > > and project management & financing. > > By the way, I think that CentOS, before it was "absorbed" by Redhat, >

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-28 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 28/4/2021 10:35 π.μ., Nikolaos Milas wrote: All that, in turn, are very much dependent on community involvement and project management & financing. By the way, I think that CentOS, before it was "absorbed" by Redhat, could/might have addressed the community for fund raising, rather than

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-28 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 28/4/2021 1:23 π.μ., Gionatan Danti wrote: If the Springdale release is a 100% RH clone, why do different teams (Alma and Rocky) are trying to re-package the same 100% binary-compatible RH clone? Simply because each one of these projects obviously wants to remain independent from the