Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-04-01 Thread Michael Simpson
On 01/04/2009, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: Is OpenSolaris still closely controlled by Sun? I don't know if Sun still governs OpenSolaris, I know they are very tight as often new technologies are rolled from OpenSolaris to Solaris, but OpenSolaris might

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 20:29 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Rainer Duffner wrote: snip need it, seemingly) and hardly anybody documents (try to find a man- page for a hw-driver...) A driver without a man page is more useful than no driver at all... And a lot more exciting and dangerous too.

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread RobertH
this getting ready for centos 5.4 thread... i am not following it... yet... did we time warp and lose 5.3, being trashcanned and now waiting on 5.4? microsoft didnt buy out the centos faithful did they? ;- - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Toby Bluhm
RobertH wrote: this getting ready for centos 5.4 thread... i am not following it... yet... did we time warp and lose 5.3, being trashcanned and now waiting on 5.4? microsoft didnt buy out the centos faithful did they? ;- I'm tired of waiting for 5.4 and moved on to waiting

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread RobertH
waiting for 5.5, that is funny... :-) heheh, no, really, what happened to 5.3? -rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-31-2009 8:34 AM Toby Bluhm spake the following: RobertH wrote: this getting ready for centos 5.4 thread... i am not following it... yet... did we time warp and lose 5.3, being trashcanned and now waiting on 5.4? microsoft didnt buy out the centos faithful did they? ;- I'm

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Brian Mathis
: this getting ready for centos 5.4 thread... i am not following it... yet... did we time warp and lose 5.3, being trashcanned and now waiting on 5.4? microsoft didnt buy out the centos faithful did they? ;-  - rh ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Florin Andrei
Jimmy Bradley wrote: This is just my 2 cents worth. The reason I run Cent OS is because it just seems to be rock solid stable. That's something I haven't seen in any of the other distros, or MS Windows. My computers are my lifeline to my jobs. I get my assignments by way of my

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread RobertH
Brian Mathis wrote: Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 If you read any of the previous 90 messages, you'd know that they are talking about ways to plan for the *future* release of 5.4 and is asking how the community can help to try to prevent the delays that have happened with 5.3.

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
Florin Andrei wrote: Jimmy Bradley wrote: This is just my 2 cents worth. The reason I run Cent OS is because it just seems to be rock solid stable. That's something I haven't seen in any of the other distros, or MS Windows. My computers are my lifeline to my jobs. I get my

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Christopher Chan
Yes, there are not too many surprises with CentOS. However, debian has also had a very good reputation for stability - and Ubuntu builds on that while also providing timely releases. Please do not subscribe to the notion that ubuntu builds on Debian stability. Ubuntu has had

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 08:43 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Yes, there are not too many surprises with CentOS. However, debian has also had a very good reputation for stability - and Ubuntu builds on that while also providing timely releases. Please do not subscribe to the notion

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Christopher Chan
Ubuntu has had releases with certain key tools broken such as the GNOME Network configuration tool. that I believe is an upstream issue that affects all distributions who have updated GNOME. Yeah, you are most probably right. I remember being told there was no maintainer for

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 09:27 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Ubuntu is fine - if that gives Les what he's looking for, then I say, great. What's the point of this ongoing discussion anyway? It looked like Les was exploring the idea of trying something else and I have been through that

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 31, 2009, at 9:51 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 09:27 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Ubuntu is fine - if that gives Les what he's looking for, then I say, great. What's the point of this ongoing discussion anyway? It looked like Les was

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
Ross Walker wrote: Les has been around a long time and certainly is knowledgeable about many forms of UNIX, Linux, Windows and OS X. He seems to enjoy fomenting discussions about what it is that Red Hat does in general that doesn't suit him but given CentOS philosophy to track upstream as

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 09:27 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Ubuntu is fine - if that gives Les what he's looking for, then I say, great. What's the point of this ongoing discussion anyway? It looked like Les was exploring the idea of trying

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
Bill Campbell wrote: Les has been around a long time and certainly is knowledgeable about many forms of UNIX, Linux, Windows and OS X. He seems to enjoy fomenting discussions about what it is that Red Hat does in general that doesn't suit him but given CentOS philosophy to track upstream as

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 31, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I always thought Sun would be a better match for Apple to round out the client/server mix, but they are from somewhat different planets. Is OpenSolaris still closely controlled by Sun? You know I felt the exact

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Christopher Chan
Is OpenSolaris still closely controlled by Sun? I don't know if Sun still governs OpenSolaris, I know they are very tight as often new technologies are rolled from OpenSolaris to Solaris, but OpenSolaris might have it's own governing body now. Ha! There are very few non

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:50:26PM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: Centos (who cares about RHEL) needs a bit more extra work to make it more useful for desktops. I had to build me own kiosktool rpm for example. Ahh, yes. RH has pretty much said they're not

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Michael A. Peters
Christopher Chan wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: start/stop' though from Intrepid onwards I believe. There is no root account by default. There is a root account, you just can't access it w/o setting it's password. Oh you can. sudo -i. Now go away.

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Christopher Chan
I don't have a problem with sudo, I just have a problem with sudo configurations that make it cake to spawn a root shell. Good luck guessing the password. (okay, most ubuntu users most probably don't have a good one) ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Michael A. Peters wrote: start/stop' though from Intrepid onwards I believe. There is no root account by default. There is a root account, you just can't access it w/o setting it's password. sudo su - And as soon as you do set it's password, I highly recommend you then completely

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Ray Van Dolson wrote: Functional deficiencies here we come: 1) No equivalent to kickstart: By that I mean, zero support for automated lvm on raid kind of disk partitioning in the debian-installer This is a huge issue with SLES. AutoYaST makes me very angry. :-) I can

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Michael A. Peters
Les Mikesell wrote: Errr, why is it easier to get an admin user's name and password than the root password? Because typically you only allow root login via console or an existing login. You can brute force a user password (or sniff if the admin is lazy in how they connect - IE not using

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
With sudo disabled, the cracker must also have a local exploit that gets past SELinux. Assuming Ubuntu supports SELinux (does it?) No, it comes with AppArmor instead. There are trappings of selinux in Intrepid if not Hardy. Package: libselinux1 escription: SELinux shared

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Michael A. Peters wrote: Errr, why is it easier to get an admin user's name and password than the root password? Because typically you only allow root login via console or an existing login. I don't see how that relates to the question. You can brute force a user password (or sniff if

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Michael A. Peters
Les Mikesell wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Errr, why is it easier to get an admin user's name and password than the root password? Because typically you only allow root login via console or an existing login. I don't see how that relates to the question. It relates because your

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: I don't know the state of Nexenta but I can live with Indiana. As a desktop, it was nice to get Nvidia drivers bundled, a working thunderbird + lightning plugin enabled, working sound (can I repeat that?), pidgin, openoffice (needless to say),

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: I don't know the state of Nexenta but I can live with Indiana. As a desktop, it was nice to get Nvidia drivers bundled, a working thunderbird + lightning plugin enabled, working sound

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 31.03.2009 um 01:12 schrieb Ross Walker: I would love something like Nexenta, but with a CentOS userland. What exactly are you missing from Solaris userland that does exist in Linux, BTW? Maybe except for all the horrible cat some_arcane_value /proc/foo or /sys/baz to coax the

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:42:48AM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: Am 31.03.2009 um 01:12 schrieb Ross Walker: I would love something like Nexenta, but with a CentOS userland. What exactly are you missing from Solaris userland that does exist in Linux, BTW? Maybe except for all

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Christopher Chan
I really like a lot of things about Solaris. I dislike a lot of things about it too.. namely, automated installs are annoying (even with JumpStart), and rpm+yum is far superior from a user standpoint than Sun's package - patchid + 8000 different patch management tools. pca is the closest

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:13:51AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: I really like a lot of things about Solaris. I dislike a lot of things about it too.. namely, automated installs are annoying (even with JumpStart), and rpm+yum is far superior from a user standpoint than Sun's package -

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:21:43PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:13:51AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: I really like a lot of things about Solaris. I dislike a lot of things about it too.. namely, automated installs are annoying (even with JumpStart), and

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Christopher Chan
the new IPS package manager is okay. Doing image-updates has reasonably worked well too. Haven't tried this at all... if it's free[1] I will. If it's a large extra cost, I'll stick with PCA :-) Also, do to the nature of many of the Solaris patches (which require reboots), the

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Rainer Duffner wrote: I would love something like Nexenta, but with a CentOS userland. What exactly are you missing from Solaris userland that does exist in Linux, BTW? A package manager that can grab many thousands of packages with their dependencies and keep them up to date. And a

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Michael A. Peters
mbneto wrote: Hi, Since the release of CentOS 5.3 is imminent(?) I'd like to ask a question regarding why did it took so long to be released and, more important, suggest some actions in order to reduce this time if I can assume what caused this delay. Late? I just finished cleaning up

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Michael A. Peters wrote: First I'd like to make sure I am not complaining about this delay between the RHEL and CentOS releases per se. I did not help in any way to make it happen faster and usually I don't mind having a three weeks gap between them. But I've noticed that we had two

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Robert Nichols
Les Mikesell wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Wow, I really must be out of the loop. New versions of RHEL every 4-6 months? Damn. I left Fedora because their release schedule was too frequent ... The Fedora releases change behavior wildly with each release. The point of enterprise

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Michael A. Peters
Robert Nichols wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Wow, I really must be out of the loop. New versions of RHEL every 4-6 months? Damn. I left Fedora because their release schedule was too frequent ... The Fedora releases change behavior wildly with each release. The point

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Les: Honest question, not intended to be smart assed in any way: Why have you not moved to SL since they have released the update before CentOS? Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Neil Aggarwal wrote: Les: Honest question, not intended to be smart assed in any way: Why have you not moved to SL since they have released the update before CentOS? If I liked changing things on a whim, I wouldn't be using enterprise type distributions in the first place. And since

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:25:16PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Neil Aggarwal wrote: Les: Honest question, not intended to be smart assed in any way: Why have you not moved to SL since they have released the update before CentOS? If I liked changing things on a whim,

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:56:56PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:25:16PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Neil Aggarwal wrote: Les: Honest question, not intended to be smart assed in any way: Why have you not moved to SL since they have

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 22:56 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: So what would be the down side to just walking away from everything RH-related now that Ubuntu has a free alternative with long term support? I thought perhaps when I mentioned it earlier there would be a flurry of responses pointing

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:46:35PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: The Firefox 1.5 to 3.0 move in RHEL was at least understandable, there was good reason for that, but some of the EPEL changes - I think they leave it to the discretion of the packager but it's annoying.

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 09:56:07PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:46:35PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: The Firefox 1.5 to 3.0 move in RHEL was at least understandable, there was good reason for that, but some of the EPEL changes - I

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Jimmy Bradley
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 21:24 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 22:56 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: So what would be the down side to just walking away from everything RH-related now that Ubuntu has a free alternative with long term support? I thought perhaps when I

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Christopher Chan
So what would be the down side to just walking away from everything RH-related now that Ubuntu has a free alternative with long term support? I thought perhaps when I mentioned it earlier there would be a flurry of responses pointing out functional deficiencies but so far there have

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:17:03PM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: So what would be the down side to just walking away from everything RH-related now that Ubuntu has a free alternative with long term support? I thought perhaps when I mentioned it earlier there would be a flurry of

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Functional deficiencies here we come: 1) No equivalent to kickstart: By that I mean, zero support for automated lvm on raid kind of disk partitioning in the debian-installer This is a huge issue with SLES. AutoYaST makes me very angry. :-) I can generalize my kickstart files

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Michael A. Peters wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: start/stop' though from Intrepid onwards I believe. There is no root account by default. There is a root account, you just can't access it w/o setting it's password. Oh you can. sudo -i. Now go away. And as soon as you do set

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Ray Van Dolson
Centos (who cares about RHEL) needs a bit more extra work to make it more useful for desktops. I had to build me own kiosktool rpm for example. Ahh, yes. RH has pretty much said they're not interested in the desktop market. Until that changes either Fedora or Ubuntu it is. I'd pick Ubuntu

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Ray Van Dolson wrote: Centos (who cares about RHEL) needs a bit more extra work to make it more useful for desktops. I had to build me own kiosktool rpm for example. Ahh, yes. RH has pretty much said they're not interested in the desktop market. Until that changes either Fedora or

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-28 Thread Noob Centos Admin
2009/3/27 Spiro Harvey sp...@knossos.net.nz: required? How do you figure anything is *required* of volunteers? Show me your support contract. If you're worried that CentOS is late or is stopping you from fulfilling your own contractual obligations, perhaps you should stop being a tight-arse

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-28 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Hello: Well said! I tremendously appreciate the effort the development team puts in and am not complaining one bit about how long things take. They take what they take and that is fine by me. Please do not let the negative comments of a few people reflect badly on the majority of people that

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-28 Thread Rob Kampen
Rob Kampen Neal Development Group On Mar 27, 2009, at 18:39, Frank Thommen frank.thom...@embl-heidelberg.de wrote: nate wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: [...] I think it's safe to assume that the majority of CentOS users out there run CentOS on servers, not on desktops/laptops/etc. So

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 08:01 -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hello: Well said! I tremendously appreciate the effort the development team puts in and am not complaining one bit about how long things take. They take what they take and that is fine by me. Please do not let the negative

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-28 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:13 AM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: As a step to reducing the pressure and dissatisfaction of Are We There Yet? (When will xxx be released?), a simple publication of a projected time line will help. It should be updated as needed. It should

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 06:30 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:13 AM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: As a step to reducing the pressure and dissatisfaction of Are We There Yet? (When will xxx be released?), a simple publication of a projected time

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-27 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ray Van Dolson Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:50 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4 Is there still no room for positive feedack and discussion

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Rainer Duffner wrote: Spiro Harvey schrieb: I've got a couple of cents change here... While I do think some of the wording of the post that the above post was replying to was a bit mis-chosen, I like to believe it had a positive spin. (In that it didn't want to put blame on anybody)

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-27 Thread nate
Les Mikesell wrote: Is there still any reason other than having to learn to type 'apt-get' instead of 'yum' to prefer Centos over Ubuntu? I think for me it is just that I started with RH before they imposed the redistribution restriction nonsense and have been too lazy to change

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-27 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:34:04PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Rainer Duffner wrote: Spiro Harvey schrieb: I've got a couple of cents change here... While I do think some of the wording of the post that the above post was replying to was a bit mis-chosen, I like to believe it had a

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Timothy Murphy wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: While I love CentOS, think the team does the best possible job, and appreciate the work they put into undoing the restrictions on redistribution by the upstream distro, I have to wonder if it isn't time to just switch to a base distribution that

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-27 Thread Timothy Murphy
Les Mikesell wrote: While I love CentOS, think the team does the best possible job, and appreciate the work they put into undoing the restrictions on redistribution by the upstream distro, I have to wonder if it isn't time to just switch to a base distribution that doesn't impose those

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-27 Thread Morten Torstensen
Les Mikesell wrote: The ones that require the work that the CentOS team does to rebuild/rebrand/repackage before redistribution is permitted. This was As a corporation Red Hat HAD to do that, even if IANAL. CentOS as a model works just fine. Sure, sometimes there can be a lack of manpower

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Thommen
nate wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: [...] I think it's safe to assume that the majority of CentOS users out there run CentOS on servers, not on desktops/laptops/etc. So I'm one from the minority then :-). CentOS 5 is running on (almost) all servers and (really) all Linux clients here.

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-27 Thread Robert Nichols
Frank Thommen wrote: nate wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: [...] I think it's safe to assume that the majority of CentOS users out there run CentOS on servers, not on desktops/laptops/etc. So I'm one from the minority then :-). CentOS 5 is running on (almost) all servers and (really) all

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-26 Thread mbneto
Hi, As the OP (original poster?) I've read all messages so far and instead of replying to each one I'd like to sum all up and perhaps clarify my post so we can move on with some more productive debate. A background info: I've been using CentOS for almost three years and I am happy with it.

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-26 Thread Spiro Harvey
I've got a couple of cents change here... On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:41:41 -0400 mbneto mbn...@gmail.com wrote: I do not have any sort of numbers of the popularity of CentOS but I suspect that we are very popular and in that sense a certain level of responsibility (to that community) is

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Spiro Harvey schrieb: I've got a couple of cents change here... While I do think some of the wording of the post that the above post was replying to was a bit mis-chosen, I like to believe it had a positive spin. (In that it didn't want to put blame on anybody) I *do* agree with the

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-25 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Ross Walker wrote: How about forming a formal non-profit organization around CentOS with contributors. The question is where. What counts as a non-profit in the US doesn't automatically count as one in Europe, for example - that's why there is a Fedora EMEA, too. Which really binds ressources

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/25 Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de: Ross Walker wrote: How about forming a formal non-profit organization around CentOS with contributors. The question is where. What counts as a non-profit in the

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-25 Thread griz_quattro
Ross Walker wrote: snip To this end it would cetainly not be rude to ask these companies for appropriately sized donations to make sure CentOS keeps going strong, completely voluntary of course, anonymously if preferred, otherwise they can be prominantly listed as a valued

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:13 PM, griz_quattro griz_quat...@tx.rr.com wrote: Ross Walker wrote: snip To this end it would cetainly not be rude to ask these companies for appropriately sized donations to make sure CentOS keeps going strong, completely voluntary of course, anonymously if

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Linux Advocate
but what I worry about is members of the core CentOS team burning out and quitting... that would be much worse for CentOS than a few weeks delay here and there. For me it is important for the core team to know that they can take the time off they need for real life events without feeling

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com wrote: My thoughts exactly -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Noob Centos Admin Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:00 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Getting ready

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
Morten Torstensen wrote: Can gcc/make be distributed? Could people dedicate their CPU time ala SETI or fold...@home to test builds and compiles? I am not sure where the bottleneck is, and I know throwing money and manpower does not always help when it comes to software development :) There

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
Lanny Marcus wrote: The $ the project receives goes for hardware and network connectivity. That is not true. Money donated to the project goes to sit in a pot. Resources that we use to do things on and with are on machines that we ( developers, centos team and contributors ) pay for, manage

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
Karanbir Singh wrote: Money donated to the project goes to sit in a pot. Resources that we use to do things on and with are on machines that we ( developers, centos team and contributors ) pay for, manage and run ourselves. CentOS does not subsidise or pay for any of it. Just to clarify -

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Tue, March 24, 2009 1:13 pm, Karanbir Singh wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: Money donated to the project goes to sit in a pot. Resources that we use to do things on and with are on machines that we ( developers, centos team and contributors ) pay for, manage and run ourselves. CentOS does not

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:18:58AM -0700, Scott Silva wrote: And then maybe you can take a breath? You all are very appreciated. Don't let 10 or 20 (l)users make you think that the other million or so aren't happy!! ;-) I certainly hope this isn't in response to those of us who have piped

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
Scott Silva wrote: Also, were not getting ready for 5.4. were going to be getting ready for 4.8 first, then a CentOS6 Beta and then a 5.4. And then maybe you can take a breath? Thats a good point. One thing that I hope to work towards and I feel we are getting setup to do is get a constant

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Florin Andrei
Scott Silva wrote: on 3-24-2009 9:53 AM Karanbir Singh spake the following: Also, were not getting ready for 5.4. were going to be getting ready for 4.8 first, then a CentOS6 Beta and then a 5.4. And then maybe you can take a breath? Yeah, no kidding. This is a lot of work, no matter how

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: The $ the project receives goes for hardware and network connectivity. That is not true. Money donated to the project goes to sit in a pot. Resources that we use to do things on and with are on

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 24, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: The $ the project receives goes for hardware and network connectivity. That is not true. Money donated to the project goes to sit in a pot. Resources that we use to do things on and with are

[CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-23 Thread mbneto
Hi, Since the release of CentOS 5.3 is imminent(?) I'd like to ask a question regarding why did it took so long to be released and, more important, suggest some actions in order to reduce this time if I can assume what caused this delay. First I'd like to make sure I am not complaining about

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-23 Thread Barry L. Kline
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mbneto wrote: So, if this is really the case I'd suggest making some sort of campaign to raise money and provide the necessary resources in order to speed things up. If RH maintains the 4-6 month schedule it can happen again in less than three

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
mbneto wrote: Hi, Since the release of CentOS 5.3 is imminent(?) I'd like to ask a question regarding why did it took so long to be released and, more important, suggest some actions in order to reduce this time if I can assume what caused this delay. First I'd like to make sure I am

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-23 Thread Karanbir Singh
Barry L. Kline wrote: So, if this is really the case I'd suggest making some sort of campaign to raise money and provide the necessary resources in order to speed things up. If RH maintains the 4-6 month schedule it can happen again in less than three months. There is already a donate link

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-23 Thread mbneto
Hi Barry, I know but if this campaign comes from CentOS itself it will no appear as a hoax or some sort of scam. There is already a donate link on the centos.org web page. You could easily start that campaign and herd people to the site to make donations. Barry -BEGIN PGP

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-23 Thread mbneto
Hi, There were some unusual situations with core developers this time around. This is something that we should address don't you think? Some additional resources could help but since CentOS developers are unpaid, raising money for human resources may not be the correct approach. Beefing

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Thompson
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:46:49AM -0400, mbneto wrote: So, if this is really the case I'd suggest making some sort of campaign to raise money and provide the necessary resources in order to speed things up.� If RH maintains the 4-6 month schedule it can happen again in less than

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
mbneto wrote: Hi, There were some unusual situations with core developers this time around. This is something that we should address don't you think? Well, Karanbir has already weighed in on the thread. If he needs help I'm sure he knows where to ask. Some additional

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-23 Thread Lanny Marcus
2009/3/23 mbneto mbn...@gmail.com: There were some unusual situations with core developers this time around. This is something that we should address don't you think? If someone has a medical problem and someone else is getting married, how will you address that? Everyone has a personal life

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-23 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 03:10:46PM +0200, Neil Thompson wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:46:49AM -0400, mbneto wrote: So, if this is really the case I'd suggest making some sort of campaign to raise money and provide the necessary resources in order to speed things up.� If

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-23 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Ray Van Dolson ra...@bludgeon.org wrote: There maybe needs to be a community leizon of some sort to help leverage these types of offers for help.  Many of us are willing to help, but certainly don't have the necessary time cycles to do so as effectively as

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