On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Post, Mark K wrote:
CentOS is a project that takes the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source RPMs and
builds binary packages, as well as the installer, etc., from them. Thus,
they create a "workalike" of RHEL3, and now RHEL4. When Red Hat distributes
updates, either for bug fixes or security vulnerabilities, CentOS uses the
source RPMs for those and rebuilds them also. In essence, you're getting an
up-to-date, although unofficial and commercially unsupported, version of
RHEL3/4.
Thanks for the nod, Mark -- as one of the leaders [and support
vendors ') ] for CentOS, it is nice to see public notice for
the effort and time volunteered into the project, and that it
is appreciated.
We have used some care to make sure that the trademarks which
that other 'Prominent North America Enterprise Linux Vendor'
wished to have removed, _are_ removed; Copyright notices and
some reference for purposes of identification to 'Red Hat'
(the only U.S. registered mark I presently see in play within
the CentOS rebuild buinary product) have to remain. The
project also recently received a request from that PNAELV's
outside counsel, and adjusted Mark usage on the
(non-commercail) project's website.
Updates and priority of release of updates, and pre-testing of
some new major 'point' updates and the version 4 major
release, are important to CentOS' maintainers. Access to
physical hardware, and hardware configuration coverage (rather
than building in an emulator) are important and are ongoing
challenges; I encourage members of this list who use CentOS to
proactively file reproducable bug reports. See:
http://www.centos.org/bugs/
-- Russ Herrold
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