On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 02:27:56PM -0800, Michael Dexter wrote: > I'm sure you've seen this. In case you haven't: > http://www.karan.org/blog/2014/01/07/as-a-community-for-the-community/
Hrm. It's unclear how this will change compatabilities and such. There are a lot of words in the annoucements suggesting streamlining of the process, but not about new barriers to collaboration. When some outsiders become insiders, other outsiders can be pushed further outside. CentOS has always followed RedHat Enterprise Linux, and (IMHO) acted as an independent source and an independent test of RHEL code and behavior. When the independence goes away, we lose a parallax view of the development of this trailing-edge but super-stable distro. I run Scientific Linux, which trails both CentOS and RHEL. SL isn't about compatability with the latest hardware, but about very stable platforms with very long term support (provided by groups at FermiLabs and CERN). SL runs on giant supercomputer clusters, for enormous numeric jobs that can run for weeks or months. Stability is essential. However, since SL and CentOS derive from the same RHEL sources, if I need to add an application or upgrade a library, I can usually use the CentOS or RHEL package. I hope this move does not damage that compatability. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
