[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 and release numbering

Mon Jun 9 14:12:35 UTC 2014
Niklas Larsson <niklas at tese.se>

On 2014-06-09 10:12, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> AS for the "definition" of change, It was made simple by devel guys.
> There can not be no changes, beside most necessary, that distance CentOS
> from RHEL. What RHEL publishes CentOS must also publish, with only as
> minimal as possible changes. CentOS distro is not allowed to carry any
> 3rd party repo files because RHEL does not have them, and CentOS project
> strives to be binary compatible with RHEL.
>
> And then suddenly, after CentOS Project members get payed by Red Hat
> CentOS project starts looking like Fedora respins, braking with RHEL
> numeration, CentOS distro becomes experimental platform for software Red
> Hat wants to push for better market share via respins, and we are left
> explaining to every single newbie why that had to be done.

I think this is the core issue - we (users) have the belive that centos 
is redhat without support - and I would like to keep it that way - no 
extra 3rd party repo files etc - pure RHEL - same version, same software.

/niklas