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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I¡¯ve read the mailing lists talking about the
¡°Local Community Team¡± stuff for CentOS, which makes our team very interested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Our team belongs to the Operating System
Engineering Research Center in China. Now we are trying to build a new distro
based on CentOS. The new distro we are building includes some new features
developed by ourselves. For example, we are planning to redistribute it on secondary
architecture such as MIPS and PPC while maintaining the x86 platform. In the
future, there may be SPARC platform required. Besides different architectures,
we have got our own virtualization solution called LuValley, which we want to
integrate into our distro in the near future and open source. There are also a
group of people in our team researching security Linux.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I am wondering if we could have some cooperation
to make CentOS better, for a stable, efficient and popular base-distro is
undoubtedly beneficial for both of us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>What I¡¯m doing is building a infrastructure
developing environment for my team. I¡¯m trying to transplant the feodra¡¯s koji
building system to the CentOS which can make other people integrate their achievement
smoothly. We hope that by our effort more Chinese developers could take part in
the development for Linux distribution in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>However, we¡¯ve also faced lots of
challenges. The research center have only been found for just a year. Some of
my colleagues used to developing on FreeBSD and lack an efficiency workflow and
automatic tools when moving to build Linux distro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Yours, sincerely<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Chen Baozi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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