On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> I run Scientific Linux, "SL", a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone. > The most widely used clone of RHEL is CentOS, but there may be > troubles in that community. We are getting about 5 refugees a > day from CentOS showing up on our mailing list and forums. > > Any CentOS users here? I'm hoping the tales of woe are > overblown, and CentOS is still healthy and moving forwards. > If something happens to SL, I would rather not have RHEL as > the only practical alternative. > > I use Centos 5 at work. We have a mix of it RHEL5 and Oracle Unbrakable Linux 5. Most of the noise on the Centos ML is due to the lateness of release Centos 6. Right after RHEL6 released a RHEL5 update 6 from RHEL came out so it pushed the development team in mulitple directions at the same time. It looks like they pushed through most of the 5.6 updates and made a 5.6 release. Yes, SL 6 is already out. It doesn't have the same overriding policy as Centos - be 100% binary compatible. The LWN and other blog articles about this lateness is churning up people that want to help but don't go through the research to know where and how to help. They just start blasting away on the ML to the developers. They have been harsh to these people but having to answer the same type of question 20-30 times a week is very irritating. The noise on the Centos-users list is so bad that I don't even read it anymore. My involvement in the community has been small (almost nil) but I mostly lurk on the developer mailing list. Centos is not going away and Red Hat acknowledges that they are there. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/red_hat_twarts_oracle_and_novell_with_change_to_source_code_packaging/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
