CentOS ?

[fos]

Does anyone have insight into the CentOS operations? I generally follow their planet blog but very little is posted there.

After the skirmish last year between the developers and the finance operation, things seem a little out of kilter.

CentOS needs an upgrade that Redhat released last year. Scientific Linux is on the third and final release candidate and should go to stable in early March.

I sure hate to see CentOS fall by the wayside.

Jeff

[fos]

Scientific Linux has released RC2 and plans to go for full release within the week. Maybe SL would be a good alternative to CentOS on a server?

[danieldk]

If things continue this way:
http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/

I'd rather put Debian on my servers... In fact, I do these days, Debian is more flexible and more up to date ever since Red Hat abandoned the 18-24 month release scheme.

[fos]

Changing the kernel source patch tree methodology is a curious move. I have often thought that Oracle's blatant profiteering on Red Hat's work was over the top. CentOS and SL are both Fedora type open source projects. Oracle basically took Red Hat's contributions and began marketing it as their own with a very clear profit motive. Their marketing is like a poke in the eye to Red Hat.

Some of the comments in that LWN series were out of line. I don't really think Red Hat's moral stance has been compromised by using this as a means to improve RH's profit margin.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Jeff

[fos]

Scientific Linux 6.0 has been released. Their homepage and servers are loaded pretty well at the current time. I'll wait a day or two and then download a copy and give it a try.

Jeff