[CentOS] Choosing to put CentOS in terms of itself ...

Thu Aug 18 18:55:59 UTC 2005
Preston Crawford <me at prestoncrawford.com>

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> Preston Crawford <me at prestoncrawford.com> wrote:
>> Regardless of whether Red Hat deserves credit for their
>> work, that's their user experience.
>
> If you go all the way back to even the "vote for CentOS"
> thread, I have _never_ even suggested such.  In fact, I
> differed with those who did.
>
> 100% of the reason why I even bring up the development
> history is the same reason I bring up anything else, to help
> someone avoid the assumptions and run into the same issues.
> Now I've done it enough times now, and I will avoid doing it
> again.

I think it's helpful. Someone should write a "where do babies come 
from?"-style FAQ that deals with CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Red Hat, etc. so 
people understand the virtuous cycle that is the constellation of Red Hat 
and RHEL-derived products.

Preston